Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Kennedy the trade expansion bill was vital. It could, he said, "affect the unity of the West, the course of the cold war, and the growth of our nation for a generation or more to come." All the living ex-Presidents-Republicans Hoover and Eisenhower as well as Democrat Truman-came out for its passage. The Committee for a National Trade Policy, a bipartisan business group, strove to convince the nation of the bill's importance...
...Thus this new admissions policy represents an important step for the Summer School," Crooks asserted. He said that "the tremendous increase every year in the number of applications made the action vital and necessary...
...local Chamber of Commerce has charted the great monuments of the colonial and revolutionary periods into a continuous route called the Freedom Trail. The Trail starts at the Park St. Church, just across the street from the Common, and winds about, including some of the most vital sites in the history of the fight for American independence...
...walks. But man's nervous system is a data-processing mechanism that regulates the rate and rhythm of the heart without regard to the volume or energy of the signals it receives. Bright sunlight or a thunderclap may have no effect on the heart; a vital message read in semidarkness or a whisper that "A.T. & T. has fallen 30 points" may send the heart racing faster than it would during a hard set of tennis...
...righteousness usually reserved for bookmakers who do not pay their protection money.) A random sampling produces: "Fresh from Europe, the American scene held about as much charm for me as a dead rattlesnake lying in the deep freeze. What can possibly give us the idea that we are a vital, lusty, joyous, creative people?'' "The American is an unsocial being who seems to find enjoyment only in the bottle or with his machines." "It is particularly refreshing to observe the remarkable behavior and apparent contentment, often with little, of French children. Wise beyond their years, they seem...