Word: crucial
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...have been the turning point after considerable national tolerance toward the radicals. Those who evolved the technique of confrontation into a frighteningly effective weapon are now themselves confronted-by angry government officials, the courts, an increasing number of resolute college administrators and even by exasperated fellow students. The crucial question is whether the reaction has come soon enough, and whether it will take the proper form. If it does not, higher education in the U.S. is in trouble, threatened by both the wilder dissenters and by the repressive forces of an enraged government and public...
...find a settlement. Representatives of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France met again in New York last week, but their discussions will be made more difficult by the indecision now attending French foreign policy. Bilateral negotiations in Washington between State Department officials and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin are more crucial. In this case, Washington's diplomats are negotiating in the presence of a third party that is, as it were, looking over their shoulders: the U.S. Jewish community, which is deeply concerned that Israel's interests might be subordinated in a search for U.S.-Soviet rapprochement...
Harvard has played its best games in those contests where it was the under dog. They beat Boston University (12-2) in a crucial Greater Boston League game and handed Springfield College. District I NCAA College Champions, their only defeat of the season. Hopefully the upset trend will continue tomorrow...
From a spectator point of view, the lacrosse contest was different because lacrosse is a team game, whereas fencing and tennis consist of many individual matches. To watch the exceptional team-work and then the reaction of the reaction of the group as a whole to the crucial goals was a stirring experience...
...offense has collapsed several times this season late in the game, and threatened to do so against Princeton, but in the last crucial minutes, the Crimson scoring machine somehow came alive...