Word: crucial
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...professor is more than a liberator of literature and theology; he also "liberated" Paris and Strasbourg in World War H. In combat psychological warfare, Miller had to advance to crucial points in the front lines and answer German bullets with broadcasts asking the enemy to surrender. He proudly relates that on August 25, 1944. "I liberated Paris. I was the second person into the city, right behind General Leclere. It was a wonderful day--fighting and drinking and reveling in the streets. You would shoot at Germans and then step back into a doorway and kiss a pretty girl...
Early Career. Bulganin was born in the old Volga city of Nizhni Novgorod (now Gorky). His comparatively well-off family paid for him to go to school, though his official biography now disguises his unproletarian origin. Bulganin. aged 22, joined the party as an organizer a few crucial months before the Revolution, is thus one of the few old Bolsheviks still in high places. Assigned to the dread CHEKA during the bloody civil war. he showed so much efficiency in jailing and executing the "People's enemies." and in putting down a workers' revolt in his old home...
...soldier first and a revolutionary second, Voroshilov fully appreciated the rising menace of both German and Japanese power. U.S.-Soviet friendship, deprecated by many of the purely political commissars, was to him crucial. This same attitude prevailed through the ambassadorship of Joseph E. Davies and ceased only when Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. But the memory of agreement still remained, and World War II saw a degree of Allied co-operation on the military level that, naturally but regrettably, was not equalled on the political. Possibly, with Zhukov now Defense Minister and Voroshilov still an important factor...
Today's match became especially crucial for the Crimson after Boston College upset the varsity's closest N.C.A.A. competitor, Clarkson, 3 to 2, at Potsdam, N.Y., yesterday. A sweep of the Crimson's remaining seven games may well assure the sextet of a chance at the national title...
...real causes of Georgi Malenkov's downfall may never be actually learned, but Moscow developments indicate that the problem of the Russian peasantry--a dilemma which Soviet leaders have not been able to solve in 37 years--has once again become crucial...