Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the plot is infinitely complex, the events are not merely strung out in a loose chain. The plot is always alluding back to patterns it followed earlier, answering questions it asked earlier, and suddenly giving vital purpose to what earlier seemed to be pages of merely pleasant digression...
...figure of great symbolic significance in the present struggle for black freedom. To write about him and his revolt now, in present-day America, is to write propaganda and allegory. It is to make a de facto attempt to influence the thinking of contempory blacks and whites on a vital segment of black history and thus influence the final outcome of the present struggle...
...wonderful it is [Fortas writes in his book] that freedom's instruments--the rights to speak, to publish, to protest, to assemble peaceably, and to participate in the electoral process--have so demonstrated their power and vitality! These are our alternatives to violence; and so long as they are used forcefully but prudently, we shall continue as a vital, free society...
...making his contacts, Hughes had the assistance of Abu Said, a stringer who began filing to TIME 18 years ago. His connections were unfailing, but the most: vital contact for our cover story proved easier than seemed likely, Hughes reported...
...their long-range, 122-mm. Russian heavy guns into Israel. Israeli jets flashed across the cease-fire lines three times to bomb the area around the Jordanian town of Irbid and hammer at the artillery positions of the 421st Iraqi battalion. Deep inside Jordan, Israeli commandos blew up two vital bridges connecting Amman and the port of Aqaba...