Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crucial Question. Clearly, the Japanese mind does not want a change. Rumors of peace bids by Tokyo have been flooding Allied capitals. One, emanating last week from London, reported the Suzuki Government willing to disgorge all Japanese conquests except Korea; in return, there must be no Allied occupation of the main Japanese islands, and presumably no interference with the Shinto system...
...Germany build more submarines in 1941-42, when she almost won the crucial battle of the Atlantic...
...course of the contest the paratrooper's savage cockiness causes him to blurt out a crucial Russian secret - that the counterattacking Russians will cross a river at an "impossible" point by means of a night-built, underwater bridge. (Of the building and the crossing there are some operatically magnificent shots.) In the long run, however, stubborn shrewd ness triumphs over crafty arrogance...
...several crucial points this essentially psychological melodrama becomes dubious through overtheatricality, but overall it is searching and persuasive well beyond the usual attempt of films. The picture is also a very considerable cinematic tour de force, comparable with Hitchcock's Life boat and in some ways even harder...
Congress was in virtual recess. The House met only every third day; the Senate dawdled over the manpower bill. But every Congressman knew that, before spring was over, he would have to face some crucial legislative problems...