Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the beginning of the new Russian drive, Germany had achieved nothing but disaster (See Battle of Russia). This was the front where the Germans had hoped to hold the line while they dealt with the invaders from the west. The measure of their strength in 1944's crucial summer was that the Russians, from the first day of the new offensive, had burst shatteringly through their defenses in one of the worst defeats Germany had suffered on the eastern front since Stalingrad...
...fortnight the position of the Finnish Government has been dynamited. The army's defensive position has been broken and the military now admit that the eastern Karelian front between Lakes Ladoga and Onega (which they had previously considered an excellent natural defense) is actually almost indefensible. At the crucial moment, the Germans failed to deliver military...
...Claridge's Hotel. Cocktails were sipped; all those present, including three or four women, were in uniform. Major General Henry J. F. Miller, handsome, 53-year-old chief of the Ninth Air Force Service Command, was telling someone about the tough time he was having to get certain crucial supplies. The date promised, he said, was too late. Henry Miller was quoted as saying: "On my honor the invasion will come before June...
Several hundred experimental transfusions have been made with enlisted men volunteering to test it, pumping blood out of one arm and sending it back into the other. Majors Emerson and Ebert themselves submitted to the most crucial tests and in no case did a fever reaction occur. The new apparatus should be extremely valuable in saving the lives of wounded soldiers on the field...
...crucial problem was finding a feasible process for producing DDT in the large quantities needed. It was solved last year by a Swiss-born chemist, Dr. Oskar Frey, of the Cincinnati Chemical Works. Cincinnati Chemical still produces 60% of the DDT supply...