Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That prisoners tell all they know because "the average prisoner has nothing of importance to tell." Actually, said Shepherd, vital intelligence comes from "the painstaking creation of a related mosaic of fact created out of fragments of seemingly unimportant information gleaned from the patient questioning of thousands of captives." In effect, any information can help the enemy...
...past writers before accepting their statements as true. Settlers in the seventeenth century, attempting to stimulate immigration and investment "mingled hopes with realities and fiction with fact." Puritans and Quakers alike credited abnormal occurrences with excessive importance. Eighteenth and nineteenth century historians emphasized politics, often to the exclusion of vital social and cultural information...
...with the prospect of fighting in Indo-China. The emergence of Russia and the United States as the two most powerful nations in history has made such a change in global politics that the defense of three unpronounceable states in the midst of a steaming jungle is now as vital to U.S. national interest as the defense of the Philippines...
...expansion of Communist rule. Election year expediency, however, has prevented the Administration from making a clear statement that the United States will enter the war if other means to peace fail. Yet at this time, with East facing West across the conference table at Geneva, such a statement is vital. A negotiated peace is far more likely if the Communists know this country will not allow them to win. Aggression in Korea might never have come if the United States had explicitly guaranteed South Korean independence...
...Vital Research...