Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back on the Rails. Thus the election was more than a momentous turn in French politics. Its impact would be felt on both sides of the Atlantic, for a strong France is vital to the entire Western alliance. But the massive endorsement of De Gaulle also stirred misgivings. For, asked Western statesmen, if he had been a cantankerous, willful ally at the head of a divided nation, what headaches were in store now that Charles de Gaulle was the absolute leader of a united France? He had often repudiated NATO commitments, brusquely disavowed the West's attempts to negotiate...
Last Offer. As production ground to a near standstill last week on Lockheed's vital output of Polaris missiles, antisubmarine planes and Agena space boosters, the Administration felt obliged to change its tune. Reluctantly, President Kennedy invoked the Taft-Hartley law, aiming at a court injunction that would end the strike for an 80-day "cooling-off" period. At that, the union hastily called off the strike-temporarily...
...from our sight...too bad. One wife or another is not made to seem very important, actually. By an irony the play emphasizes the financial index of success: precisely because Howard Da Silva is the most vivid human being we see, and because the success of the Business is vital to him, the audience finds itself rooting very hard for the commercial vindication of Miss Julie Lingerie, Inc., or whatever it was called...
Woody falls in love with his secretary, an attractive intelligent English girl. If he divorces his wife, however, a deal vital to the firm's success will fall through because Woody's father-in-law is in a dominant position financially; the business must fold, and his father's (Howard Da Silva's) heart must break...
...theory now is that the Chinese had less ambitious aims to begin with: to take the high ground and the key military passes away from the Indians, and to finally establish, once and for all, Chinese control of the Aksai Chin plateau in Ladakh, so as to safeguard the vital military roads to Sinkiang province. The Chinese may have been unprepared to exploit the almost total collapse of India's armed forces and may even have been surprised by their swift success. On this reading, the terms of the Chinese cease-fire offer become intelligible. The Nov. 7 line...