Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look to Mr. Roosevelt for great, unselfish leadership in foreign affairs (witness his petulant attitude toward General de Gaulle), let alone national affairs, for he is obviously too preoccupied with playing the starring role in the great world drama of intrigue and power politics to speak with candor on crucial issues, to answer the searching questions of the world's bewildered and suffering people...
...against the imminent possibility of a disastrous deadlock between the President and a recalcitrant Congress, the Crimson home debators proposed as a possible alternative Wendell Willkie. However, they failed to establish to the satisfaction of the judges sufficient reason for the removal of President Roosevelt from office at this crucial time...
...charged, in sum, that the President's leadership in the crucial prewar years left the U.S. unprepared, either by physical armament or mental attitude...
First Teams. Trouble is that, with all the intramural pulling & hauling, the U.S. still has no oil-wise first team to throw into the crucial conversations with the British. It has a Cabinet-level committee newly appointed by the President-but these "preliminary and exploratory discussions" are supposed to be "on an expert technical level." And Britain's first team of "technicians" is a powerhouse, includes Britain's Secretary of the Home Security Ministry and Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade Sir William Brown, Anglo-Iranian Oil's Chairman Sir William Fraser, one of Royal Dutch...
...election in Oklahoma's second District, Democrat William G. Stigler (a half-Choctaw) beat Republican Edwin Oliver Clark (a quarter-Choctaw) for Congress by 3,700 votes. The election was advertised as a crucial test of whether the long Republican trend could be stopped (TIME, March 27). Both sides had poured in money and big-gun campaign speakers...