Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the activities of ex-Chief Police Inspector Jean Dides. He had known about Baranés' access to defense secrets since May, even paid him $570 a month to stay in the Communist network. But, apparently, Dides was content to go on "watching" as the ring delivered crucial defense decisions and information of France's plight in Indo-China without lifting a finger to stop it. Why? What was he waiting...
Olive Burton then placed her hands on the woman's forehead, George Burton stood behind, firmly gripping her shoulders, Edwards took her hands. All three closed their eyes. This was the crucial moment-what Edwards calls "attunement." "We get in tune with the spirit people. They receive information that we can give them, and they direct the healing." When it was over. Healer Edwards advised the woman's husband: "No reason why she shouldn't get better. Keep in touch with me. Look after her." No fee is asked, but at the door is a plate...
...rnately serious and gay, abstracted but practical. He is modest about major accomplishments (his dis coveries in physics), vain about minor ones (his physical endurance in mountain climbing). His wife plainly worships him, but laughs at him just enough to keep him human. She tells how one of his crucial experiments on slow neutrons was carried on in a fountain among unsuspecting gold fish. She giggles gently at his troubles with unruly shirtfronts. She pokes friendly fun at his brilliant friends (who called Fermi "The Pope") and tells how they once got so excited with their scientific talk that...
Indians are quick to point out that their policy is neither passive neutrality nor isolationism, but rather, they say, "non-alignment." They point out that India has played crucial roles in both the Korean and Indo-Chinese truces, which brought peace to both sides. Even Nehru has said that India never intends to be neutral on questions of right and wrong. In short, Indian foreign policy rests on mediation and settlement of issues where possible, but more importantly, on a firm stand for what India believes to be right...
Speaking on August 23, the day after the crucial Brussels conference, Conant said, "It is a tragedy that the ratification of the treaty by France has been so long delayed. It would be a far greater tragedy if the treaty were defeated in the French Assembly in the coming weeks." The Assembly defeated EDC on August...