Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev said. The crucial event had been the murder (1934) of Leningrad Party Boss Sergei Kirov. A drastic change had then come over Stalin-a "phobia" about treachery-and he had never been the same afterward. Khrushchev went on to deliver a devastating indictment of what the congress in open session had heard described as Stalin's "20 years of dictatorship and lies." At the 18th Congress, Khrushchev had shouted, "Long live the towering genius of all humanity . . . our beloved Comrade Stalin!" But now he charged...
Although its opponents displayed excellent teamwork, the Crimson managed to score at a crucial moment in the third period to tie up the game, enabling them to go on to win the overtime...
...true or not. There is, of course, no guarantee that every decision you will make will be the right one. Yet, you cannot help but make such decisions. The scholar who thinks it is best not to take a stand on a disputed issue has thereby already made a crucial decision, a decision which implies he thinks all the claims to truth with which he is dealing are either false, or not worth his commitment...
...suggesting that the rich should pay their college bills in full, or, in effect, that they should pay the fare not only for themselves but also for professors, janitors, paupers and everybody else on the intellectual streetcar, Professor Harris has highlighted one of the crucial paradoxes of modern higher education: that while a college degree is worth far more than it costs to produce, college tuition rates now do not even cover the cost of production...
Professor Harris has suggested that people today want a good college education more than ever before, and that they must and will pay to get it. If he is right, higher tuitions are both inevitable and desirable, but several crucial questions must first be answered before coming to such an unqualified conclusion...