Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of Iran's constructive and precious contributions to world civilization, which place the whole Western world under her obligation, because Iran and her problems are crucial for the peace of the rest of the world, because in this war she has rendered services saving us life and treasure at a dreadful expense to herself, because she still has a great future and looks to America to help guide her toward fulfillment, she and her young king are entitled to the respect, sympathy and fair dealing that are essential in the American tradition...
Donald C. Williams, associate professor of Philosophy, took a sharply divergent view of the state of the world. Granted that "it is entirely possible that we shall have a war wiping out three fourths of humanity," and despite the fact that "This is a crucial period for man," Williams presented a decidedly optimistic viewpoint...
...stand went balding, bumbling Major General Sherman Miles, wearer of four rows of ribbons, Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Intelligence in the crucial days of 1941. Into the record went a long series of Japanese code messages intercepted before Dec. 7. Most significant: instructions sent by Tokyo on Sept. 24, ordering a spy in Honolulu to divide Pearl Harbor into five sectors, report on the ships at anchor in each...
...last week Leopold Figl had charted his first objectives for Austria: 1) reduction in the size of the Allied occupation armies; 2) a foreign policy turned toward the West, but hoping to bridge East and West; 3) solution of food and fuel problems. Point three was crucial. Said Figl: "Only a government that, with Allied help, can provide food and fuel, will survive...
...entitled to have good neighbors on its street. . . You will probably think I am a little energetic about this. But I am a little resentful and I think the House will agree I am entitled to be. . . ." Churchill on the Bomb. The atomic bomb was the nub. On this crucial subject, Churchill and Bevin addressed them selves not only to the U.S. and Russia but to the British public and press, lately convinced that the U.S. was holding out on Great Britain. Said Churchill: "According to our present understanding with the United States, neither country is en titled to disclose...