Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still another Communist offensive, directed by General Liu Po-cheng, the "one-eyed dragon," was taking shape in the vital Yangtze Valley. Nationalist troops moved in & out of Hankow daily; the city's mayor, recalling how the Japanese took Hankow by a surprise attack from the rear in 1937, said hopefully: "I think there is no way for the Communists to come into Hankow." It was not even certain that the Communists would...
...newspaper's claim to the protection of the First Amendment, Pope told a University of Michigan audience, rests on its role as a common carrier of vital information: "Nevertheless, hundreds of newspapers habitually carry this information ... in the most horribly butchered and distorted form...
...critical, confused, difficult year, and the editors' attempt to evaluate it had to begin, of course, with the facts. Because many final figures are not released until after the year's end, the editors had to go directly to the sources for some statistics that were vital to the story. Many of them were to be had only in Washington, and some weeks before the story went to press Washington Bureau Reporter Marshall Berger was handed a query ("The longest I had ever seen") from Business & Finance. To get the answers, Berger began seeing specialists in the departments...
...great popular front [must be] ready to solve what to harassed village women are vital problems-such small things as the position of the village fountain or the location and measurement of the village washing place. When a woman is head over heels in work, help her get her children to school, call a doctor when someone falls ill. Forget wordy propaganda. . . . Never mention Communism...
...their only trial so far--a 46-29 win over a spotty M.I.T. team--the locals will be getting their first major test. Strength is pretty well established in several events, for both Jerry Gorman and Ted Norris turned in either double wins or a win and a vital medley job against the Engineers, but there are several weakerslots in the lineup...