Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later this week Banker Black comes to the most crucial part of his trip: Egypt. The most important single development project in the world today is the proposed high dam spanning the Nile at Aswan. The 15-year, $1.3 billion project will have 1,440,000 kw. of power capacity and increase Egypt's electric supply eightfold. Several months ago Black worked out a deal to lend Egypt $200 million to help get the project started, with the U.S. and Great Britain adding grants of $70 million. The only thing to be settled was the question of water rights...
...Knockout. In crucial California, Stevenson won all the way. Although Kefauver had lured every special group with every special promise he could muster up, Stevenson carried cities and farm country, labor districts and white-collar districts, Negro areas and melting pots. In the expected total of about 1,800,000 Democratic ballots, Stevenson won an unexpected margin of about 450,000 votes...
...Communists." But in a land where many of the people are at once Roman Catholic and anticlerical, the Vatican is being discreet. Communists are embarrassed by the dethroning of Stalin, but Communism's fellow-traveling allies, the Socialists of Pietro Nenni, are expected to do well. Four crucial races...
...storage shack nicknamed "Siberia" in a shipyard in Groton, Conn., Nautilus began to take shape under the intense, sometimes ruthless direction of Captain Hyman Rickover. Some of the salt-encrusted admirals had sneered at Rickover's folly and his obstreperous methods, obstructed him for five long and crucial years, tried to break up his team and even to get him tossed out of the Navy. It remained for Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations since last August, to realize fully what Nautilus meant, to pick up where the engineers had left off and, as a professional Navy...
...fantastic dinner given by the Labor Party to Bulganin and Khrushchev will surely prove to be one of the most crucial meetings since the war. The visit has been primarily important for the light it has thrown on Mr. Khrushchev's character; and the light shone most clearly during Monday's dinner. What has proved to be sinister is the nature of his frequent outbursts-the occasions when he turns savagely and indiscriminately on all about...