Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country sentenced to death." As a commission for the German government for $50,000 (which he gave to children's charity), he painted his 1966 portrait of Konrad Adenauer as a figure illusory and shrinking in form, as if wasting away. "He's very cunning, stately, vital," says Kokoschka of the 90-year-old former German chief of state, adding in admiration, "For three weeks he posed, never wanting to sit. 'You are standing,' he said...
...strike for two weeks. At that time, the President named a mediation panel whose members included Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Commerce Secretary John Connor. Summoning the labor-management negotiators to Washington, McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff lectured them about G.E.'s "vital importance to national defense." Mc Namara noted that the U.S. depends on General Electric to supply, among many things, the engines for the nation's best fighter plane, the F-4 Phantom...
...author reserves judgment for the business of war itself: "It is so easy to start wars or to get drawn into them," he writes, "and yet so difficult to stop them. One lesson we learned from Sunrise was the vital importance of establishing a secret contact and secure communications between the leaders on each side of the battle. This is not easy, but Sunrise proved that it is not impossible...
Party resolutions are not binding on British governments, and Wilson is not likely to endanger relations with the U.S. by reducing Britain's defense commitments. Still, for a politician who seeks to rule by consensus, the Brighton balloting clearly showed that he had failed to achieve one in vital foreign policy and defense fields. It is now up to Wilson to either create a new consensus within his party or bend to the one that already exists...
Cronkite, for one, agrees. TV, he feels, is shortchanging the vital, reportorial aspect of journalism. "The networks," he says, "including my own, do a first-rate job of disseminating the news, but all of them have third-rate news-gathering organizations. We are still basically dependent on the wire services. We have barely dipped our toe into investigative reporting...