Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have read TIME since my early teens. In those eleven years I have never read a better single article in TIME than your initial Essay on the U.N. In two pages, without a single wasted word, you have thrust to the heart of the U.N. crisis, laid bare the vital facts and presented an unparalleled perspective on the topic...
...bomb line was moving slowly closer to North Viet Nam's capital of Hanoi. Sweeping in from their carriers in the South China Sea, U.S. Navy fighter-bombers struck twice at a vital bridge link on the coastal highway just 65 miles south of the capital. The bombs and rockets that smashed the span marked the first time U.S. air power had hit a purely strategic target in North Viet...
...more or less secure Western ascendancy over the Assembly and 2) the forceful personality of Dag Hammarskjöld, who took initiatives that few of the U.N.'s founders had visualized as part of the office of Secretary-General. His U.N., of course, was useless if the vital interests of a major power were at stake: when Russia brutally suppressed the Hungarian uprising, the Assembly could only pass resolutions of censure. But the Hammarskjold decade saw two operations in which the U.N., for better or for worse, did act, and set remarkable precedents for international cooperation in keeping...
...Seventh Fleet's carriers 250 miles away, Phantom jets and Skyraiders whooshed into the air for yet another in the latest series of U.S. strikes at North Viet Nam. This time the target was closer than ever to North Viet Nam's capital. It was a vital Viet Cong ammunition depot near Phuqui, a bare 120 miles south of Hanoi. Because the ammunition caches were dispersed over an area a mile square, each plane was allotted a predetermined bunker or corrugated-iron building. Two hours later, as the Viet Cong were combing through the wreckage, another wave...
...that Perón did much more than drive the country into economic ruin. Between 1946 and his downfall in 1955, Perón, assisted by his wife, Evita, lavished huge sums on industrialization and neglected the vital farm sector, created a vastly inefficient bureaucracy to produce full employment at the expense of the state treasury, and filled his own and his henchmen's pockets with graft. Successive governments have been trying to unscramble the mess and straighten out the Peronistas ever since...