Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleaded a producer of TV commercials, asking Actor-Announcer Allen Swift to hurry to a recording session. All sorts of people had collected to praise Chesterfield cigarettes, but no one present had sufficient talent to deliver a certain vital line. Swift hurried the five blocks between his Manhattan office and the recording studio, cleared his throat and said...
From Across the Aisle. Of vital aid to Mansfield was Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, who enjoyed the opportunity of bringing the G.O.P. to the rescue of a Democratic leadership so beset by Democratic dissidence. Dirksen worked tirelessly at rounding up Republican votes for cloture. Said he to his colleagues: "This is personal. I have to have your votes...
Straw Man? While he was calculatedly vague about how India was to achieve military preparedness, Nehru said not a word on a subject that is hardly less vital to the nation's future: his successor. Since his feverish campaign for last February's general election, 72-year-old Nehru on several occasions has been bedridden for weeks at a time. Though he has recently regained much of his old bounce, and even brags that his health is "extraordinarily good," the guessing game about his successor was keener than ever last week...
...Vital to the overnight build-up of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II were the new aptitude tests that transformed bakers and brokers into pilots, bombardiers and navigators. The tests downplayed such culture-linked criteria as college degrees and IQs. Instead, they matched raw abilities to the skills needed...
...exact procedure and an overemphasis on the appearance (as opposed to the reality) of competence. In general, the female trend is toward economy and financial caution. Faced with a recession, the female corporation hastens to curtail expenditure and reduce the dividend." Recognizing the difference, says Parkinson, can be vital to an aspiring executive...