Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest housing bill in history, an increased minimum wage and new federal highway financing. But such pet Kennedy programs as aid to education and medical care for the elderly never even came to House votes. And in one of the bitterest blows of all. President Kennedy got for his vital foreign aid a half-loaf that did not meet his urgent demands for long-term borrowing authority...
...Bulgarian legation and August A. Yashin at the Russian embassy. Could these distant subscribers really care about the new school budget or the fortunes of the high school football teams? Or were they more concerned with any and all news of Abilene's Dyess Air Force Base, a vital Strategic Air Command installation whose ring of twelve underground Atlas missile silos had just been armed with its first bird...
Throne of Blood. Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa's grand, barbaric Japanization of Macbeth is probably the most original and vital attempt ever made to translate Shakespeare to the screen...
Finally, the Assembly voted on the vital Soviet Union resolution, a hard-nosed declaration that would not only grant China's seat to the Peking Communists, but would also give the Reds what amounted to a U.N. blessing in conquering Formosa. The Russian resolution could not even win a simple majority, and was defeated 48-36, with 20 abstentions. The roll call...
Last week's Persephone settled none of the old arguments. The Daily Telegraph still insisted that it "falls between several stools." while the London Times found in Ashton's work a "vital and pugnacious originality of invention." But few viewers, after they became accustomed to the deliberate jerkiness of the choreography, were bored-suggesting that Ashton's plastic surgery may have returned Persephone to the stage where it belongs...