Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, those questions which later historians will certainly judge to be the most crucial of our time will not be the principal subjects of debate. The campaign is likely to be fought for the most part on older and more familiar ground...
Chester Bowles declared last night that neither political party in the 1956 election is likely to center debate on the great, crucial issues of our time. In the first of three Godkin Lectures, he said that these underlying issues may soon force the United States into a new political era--"calling for new alignments and a fresh burst of political imagination and creative leadership...
...killed seventeen men in the war, and--more convincingly--how he fell in love with an Italian girl in Rome. Returning home, he has a new attitude toward himself and the public relations job which he soon takes. Remaining self-consistent, the action builds up to a series of crucial scenes. If some of the early parts of the film are tedious, they justify these scenes and make them real. When the young executive's boss humbles himself before his daughter and his employee, and when the man himself does so before his wife, the words they use have meaning...
...days, confronted by the most crucial economic and political issue to come before it in 1956, the U.S. Senate squabbled and made all manner of political noises. One Senator after another rose during the debate to say that the farm bill must provide a really sense-making solution to the problems of the nation's agricultural economy. One dreary night last week the Senate finally passed its bill. It was no more than a tangled crop of political weeds...
Beer, chairman of the state branch of Americans for Democratic Action, said that the suggested changes would "reduce the influence of Massachusetts and the other populous states in the elections." Under the present system a small majority in a crucial state can give a large block of electoral votes to the candidate and disproportionate influence to the state, Beer said...