Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down Negro duties, play up white guilt; the extremists of Negro hatred get by unchided. Understandable embarrassment on behalf of the law-abiding middle classes leads the same leaders−generally after a riot has got out of control−to declarations that "violence must be deplored, but . . ." The vital counsel of patience is lost in the competition among leaders to say, "Baby, you've got the whole world coming to you now"when the unalterable fact, as certain as the aging of a good bourbon, is that much time will elapse before all Negroes are free, black...
...curious mountain war sputtered on. At Yusmarg, a tiny Himalayan village near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, Indian police fought off a night attack by "hundreds" of Pakistani infiltrators armed with mortars, light machine guns and Sten guns. On the winding highway between Srinagar and Leh, a vital link to Indian forces manning the Communist Chinese border in Ladakh, a 14-man police detail guarding a wooden bridge clashed with night raiders...
Thus, the problem will automatically be put before a three-man tribunal. India and Pakistan will each select one member, while the vital third will be a man acceptable to both countries. The ruling Congress Party introduced a motion approving the Kutch agreement and giving Shastri a free hand to reach a settlement. It was accepted by Parliament...
...authorized any of the United Kingdom's 124 police forces to send warrants directly to Dublin, where the commissioner of the Garda Siochana will simply order the wanted man picked up and packed off. In effect, the law restores the pre-1964 system, but with the vital difference that a fugitive claiming Irish citizenship gets a 15-day breathing spell to petition for habeas corpus in an Irish court. A pending British law will send Irish warrants to local British magistrates for endorsement, provide the same 15-day grace period and right of habeas corpus. Both laws will also...
...device is a veteran of all the manned Mer cury and Gemini flights, being used to convert liquid oxygen into gas for the astronauts to breathe. When oxygen pressure started falling in Gemini 5, it was a sure sign that for some reason electricity was not heating that vital filament...