Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall." Then he looks out the window. It's raining. Another inspiration. "Like the drip, drip drip of the raindrops when the summer shower is through." Somehow Cary manages to continue unaided by props through "so a voice within me keeps repeating" when Alexis Smith, always present in the crucial moments, floats in through the door as Cary triumphantly sings "you, you, you" and goes into the chorus of "Night and Day." This is the Warner Brothers' penetrating conception of how Cole Porter, on whose life the picture is debased, wrote his famous song...
Above all of the confusion and the crowds there still remains an intangible--the Harvard name--which, for better or worse, has attracted 2000 men who are willing to invest four crucial years and want the best possible returns. If the record is any sort of evidence, they have little to fear...
...general ecumenical movement, but it was upon its initiative that negotiations with the Presbyterian Church were begun. . . . The plan which the majority now presents deliberately omits for further consideration certain questions of detail (the functions of bishops in the united church, for example) and goes directly to the crucial matters of episcopacy, the ministry and sacraments. On these and other questions a surprising identity in principle was discovered...
Greeks voted in a crucial plebiscite last week. Nominally, they were voting whether or not to bring back King George II from British exile. Actually, they were deciding whether Greece should remain the only Balkan country uncontrolled by Russia, or become a Soviet satellite, as would surely happen if leftists won. At week's end, not all the votes had been counted. But the result seemed certain: Royalist victory...
...week, Aung San paraded through Rangoon in a jeep, waving a red flag, while thousands of ragged Burmans shouted: "Down with the Government!" Few Burmans really wanted violence, but a British officer estimated that there were enough weapons hidden in the country for a "long and bloody struggle." The crucial factor would be the size of next November's rice crop. Now Burmans chanted an old verse with new, ominous meaning...