Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Role. Shuttling between the East Coast and his 22-acre Triple-H homeplace in Waverly, Minn., Humphrey devoted much of the week to strengthening the creaking Democratic machinery (see following story) in preparation for his formal campaign kickoff this week in Washington. One crucial question that remains unresolved is what role Lyndon Johnson will play in his Vice President's campaign. The President has told Humphrey privately that it may be best for him to do nothing, and last week Johnson declared at a press conference that he does not intend to undertake "partisan activities." If that is true...
...Some of the shock feeling is caused by a kind of historical provincialism: one often tends to feel that one's own time, one's particular moment, is the worst, the most significant ever. Historians are cooler about it. With cosmic detachment, they insist that the only crucial years are those providing great turning points in human affairs. For all its banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century...
...Carpathian border with Czechoslovakia, while to the south, a huge Soviet troop convoy waited inside Hungary. Token forces from Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany and Hungary had also been put on battle-ready status. Air bases in Poland and nearby Baltic states were crowded with Soviet warplanes. The missing, crucial fragment of information was whether the Kremlin had mustered these forces as a bluff or a preliminary for invasion...
Embittered Alliance. On tactical grounds, McCarthy himself would be Humphrey's ideal running mate. Whether the Senator could be persuaded to accept may become a crucial question in the Democratic Convention. McCarthy would align much of his considerable force behind the ticket-although his alliance with Humphrey would also embitter many of his supporters. To make the post palatable to McCarthy, Humphrey would probably have to demand strong planks on peace and racial justice for the party platform...
...years, up to 1918, his country was dominated by a Western power, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs' only hope was that a strong nation of similar Slavic culture, sensitive to Slav desires for self-determination, would help her drive for independence. The Russian Bolsheviks during the crucial years of World War I, became her champion...