Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself to be captured by a magnetic leader who will sweep all before him, and pull a lot of Republicans in with him. Or it can develop, train and inspire thousands of candidates for all offices-local, state and national-who can honestly and conscientiously make "the party" a vital part of a trinity that includes principles and country...
...China. He was finally permitted to leave the U.S. in 1955, surfaced immediately in Peking. The status of his missile program is obscure, but it is known that a missile range has been laid out near the Sinkiang nuclear testing ground. Some observers believe that, despite shortages of vital nickel and chromium, Red China, which already has some Soviet-designed, surface-to-surface rockets, might have a nuclear-tipped, 200-mile missile in two to three years...
Last week the drive suddenly grew into a major offensive. Along the Uganda border, a government column shook the rebel hold on the northeastern Congo by recapturing the towns of Beni and Lubero. In the west, another force rolled unopposed from Boende all the way to Ikela, a vital road junction 185 miles from Stanleyville. But the main force came from the south. There, led by a Belgian colonel and 250 mercenaries, the 2,000-man 5th Mechanized Brigade clanked out of its staging area at Kongolo one morning, rumbled 250 miles in four days, conquered the rebel communications center...
...chief prophet, telling them to express what they saw in colors straight from the tube. If a shadow had a bluish look, said he, the painter should use pure ultramarine. A group called the Nabis, or prophets, gathered and asserted that the imitation of three dimensions was less vital than a blatant arrangement of lines and colors. That was art; the other was slavish copying. Bonnard became "the very Japanese Nabi" for his fascination with oriental asymmetry, ascending perspective and sinuous contours...
...gubernatorial candidate, and English has one--Nassau's able, attractive County Executive Eugene Nickerson. If Nickerson became Kennedy's man and won both nomination and election, Kennedy would demonstrate that he, and not Mayor Wagner, controlled political power. At the same time his man, Nickerson, would gain the vital patronage a governor possesses...