Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crucial to ADA's stance is the officially-pronounced attitude toward the candidacy of Henry A. Wallace. Wallace followers are patriotic enough, in ADA's view, but both inspiration and string-pulling for the third party are based upon the international Soviet goal of destroying Continental economies in the service of Communist ascendancy to power. Recognizing the emotional lure of the Wallace symbol on issues of civil liberties and domestic reaction, ADA bases its appeal to liberals on opposition to Wallace's anti-Marshall Plan stand. Sacrificing the democracy of Western Europe, it claims, is "too high a price...
...Harvard, there could be no valid argument that the magazine should be thought of as a Harvard enterprise. Though denying that more percentage figures could be the determinant, the Administration pretty clearly based their public case on figures and figures alone. In so doing, they left out a crucial function in magazine work: editing. A brief soon to be filed with the Council by the New Student's editors proves quite conclusively that this work was handled entirely by undergraduates, who determined what stories were wanted, solicited these articles from writers of their own choice, and edited the copy when...
Churchill is right [TIME, Feb. 2]. The world is at a crucial point in the evolutionary process. We have here and now to resolve the question as to whether the world social organism shall advance toward closer integration along the lines of individual freedom and intelligent self-determination, which is democracy, or within a matrix of "scientific" and coercive direction by a political elite, which is world Communism...
Above the hum of eulogy and the clank of banquet silverware, two Republican voices sounded most clearly.* One was Governor Tom Dewey's. In Boston, in a speech on foreign policy, he laid low once & for all the charge that he is unwilling to take a stand on crucial campaign issues. He endorsed the Marshall Plan to the "full sum which has been requested," called for internationalization of the Ruhr and the immediate economic unity of Europe. He also blasted the Democrats for "the policies which resulted in surrendering 200 million people in Middle Europe into the clutches...
...asked permission to send planes from England in a shuttle flight to Russia in order to drop aid to Bor's troops. Moscow stalled for a crucial month, finally allowed one flight on Sept. 18. On Oct. 3, the Warsaw insurrection collapsed. The Russians, Lane bitterly concludes, stalled before Warsaw long enough to let the Nazis kill off 250,000 Poles. That made it easier for the Russians to handle the rest...