Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beta Kappa key, a reputation as an amateur boxer and ballplayer, and a deaf left ear as the result of a blow with a baseball bat. That deaf ear kept him out of West Point, his first choice for a career; and it has also enabled him, at crucial times, to hear only the questions he cares to answer...
...hearts of our soldiers, sailors and marines. I've heard many speak with contempt for their foes, with disgust, dislike and many times with pity-but never with hatred. The Church, however, may arouse hatred against itself by a foolish campaign against a straw man (hatred) at this crucial moment...
Nonetheless, business and Government must blueprint the disposal of these war plants before war ends, if their conversion to peacetime production is to be accomplished in a hurry-or perhaps at all. For until that problem is solved the U.S. cannot get on with answering the really crucial question: how to use U.S. productive capacity so that full employment in peacetime becomes a fact...
...dove may be either Spitfire or Messerschmitt, or the Holy Ghost, or both. The redemption from fire by fire may be either the crucial moral dilemma of war-kill or be killed-or the redemption from hellfire through heaven-sent fire, or both. That the fire is heaven-sent, literally as well as through the mere figurative agents, doves and bombers, Eliot has no doubt. For the lyric continues...
...left, swearing never to trust a crystal ball again. They quit on you at the crucial moment. Television will be much better. But I'm going down to the Walnut Cafe tonight to see if I can find that Blonde. No sense in waiting till 1948. Besides I might get along better with her now, while I still have a full head of hair...