Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over higher taxes, and that the economic conditions do not warrant the increase. In the first case, any spending cuts would come in non-defense areas which have the most pressing needs. Therefore to oppose the tax hike in protest to the war in Vietnam serves merely to desert vital programs. The President has made his opinion clear that the war, though costly, is vital to American interest. To disagree with this priority is admirable; but to disregard it is unrealistic and stupid...
South Viet Nam's sprawling Mekong Delta is a military planner's nightmare. May-to-October monsoon rains churn the paddyfields into oceans of viscous slop that bogs down troopers and tanks alike. But for all its unpleasant mud, the Delta is far too vital to be ignored. It is the home of one-third of South Viet Nam's 16.5 million people, produces fully one-half of the country's food. It is also infested with Viet Cong. As long as the U.S. has concentrated most of its military muscle in other areas...
...really was. What was clear was that more and more elements of the army were siding with the anti-Maoists in the provinces in a spreading disaffection directly traceable to the by-now-famed incident in Wuhan. There, three weeks ago, General Chen Tsai-tao, whose command includes the vital Yangtze River hub city, seized two top Mao emissaries sent from Peking to bring Chen to heel. Peking negotiated the pair's release; but despite frantic efforts since then, Mao has been unable to subdue the open rebellion in Wuhan...
...symptoms lately. Its traditional styles are suffering from hardening of the arteries, its avant-garde is in the grip of a frenzied obscurity, and its fever chart at the box office is down, down, down. But now, just as the mourning is starting in earnest, jazz is getting a vital transfusion from the people who seemed to be helping to dig its grave-the rock 'n' rollers...
...Johnson Administration said that it was inflationary. Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd said that it would "ultimately be reflected in the cost of thousands of consumer items, food, housing, and the support of our vital effort in Viet Nam." The Department of Agriculture denounced it as a move that would make the U.S. farmer carry "an unjust and unreasonable burden." Yet the Interstate Commerce Commission, after long and careful consideration, last week overrode such complaints, granted to U.S. railways a $300 million increase in freight rates...