Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arguments in favor of the proposed scoring system are that it would make matches of more predictable length and that it would make players pay more heavily for early mistakes. Those who do not like the intercollegiate set feel that it needlessly changes a vital and fundamental part of the game...
Ambassador Halm of Ghana said the Corps seemed "acceptable," especially since his government "wants all the help we can get." The Sudanese Ambassador called the program "a wonderful idea," and predicted it would "serve a vital purpose" in the development of his country...
...Raisin in the Sun. Tenement realism about family life in Chicago's black belt bursts out in a writhing, vital mess...
However factually accurate or clinically Freudian the play may be, it has a general effect of truth, of document and drama going hand in hand. What is vital to it is the portrait of Freud-dedicated, balked, often brusque-who is ably acted by Steven Hill; what is crucial is the delineation of Elizabeth, acted with extraordinary suppleness and intelligence by Kim Stanley. Indeed, under Alfred Ryder's controlled direction and inside Donald Oenslager's evocative set, the production is everywhere helpful...
Smoke & Drink. In passing, Monty has a lot to say about courage ("One of the greatest of human qualities") and justice ("[It] cannot prevail without the sanction of force"). He is perhaps most eloquent about clean living: "Abstemiousness is vital-in food, in drink, in smoking, in social activities. So is need for regular sleep." Monty once reproachfully told Churchill: "I never smoke, never drink, I'm always in bed by 9:30, and I'm 100 percent fit." To which Churchill, who has his own definition of leadership, replied: "I never stop smoking, drink when I like...