Word: crucial
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...wanting to withdraw from Vietnam and admit defeat. An American withdrawal might have been possible in 1961, or in 1963, but once the decision to intervene on a massive scale was taken, the war took on a new character. American intervention has transformed the Vietnam conflict into a crucial test of American capacity to suppress movements of national liberation. Before Vietnam. it was not at all certain that even a substantially united people could defeat the concentrated power of the United States. The success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does...
Mclntyre provided the crucial vote last spring for passage of the ABM bill. He said that the "psychological cost of this war has become simply too much to bear...
Gomez could be the crucial factor in the Crimson attack on Watt. Throughout the week in practice. Coach Munro has emphasized short passing situations and through-passes from the halfbacks to the inside forwards rather than scrimmage sessions...
...speaking of the government's method of prosecution and the trial procedure, Miss Mitford sticks on the crucial issue of political trials. In this case the defendants are tried under the traditional catch-all political repression charge of "conspiracy" for what are essentially their anti-government beliefs. The Conspiracy charged by the government was in effect the Resistance itself, and the five figurehead defendants were held responsible for the entire draft-card burning, induction-refusal movement. One assumes that the government could not tolerate the tremendous anti-war moral tide unless it could be boiled down to a conspiracy. That...
...Harrington's support came from traditionally Democratic working class areas in Lynn, Sale, and elsewhere. What brought him over the top was a new infusion of Democratic votes from the middle class "new politics" constituency. Together these two voting blocs can achieve a democratic Left majority. It is crucial for us to remember that neither group can do it alone...