Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opens Crucial Week...
This June and July will be the crucial months for the Russiaus, and thus for all the nations that depend on Russian success. If Russian resistance is firm Hitler may have to decide whether to retreat or immobilize the front, he said, and it was precisely to prevent such trench warfare that the Rusisaus waged offensive warfare last winter when they attacked all along the extended front, and constantly harried the German troops...
...smash south, toward the oil of the Caucasus, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean. At the same moment the Japanese, with perhaps 1,000,000 men in Manchukuo, their railroads fanned out to the Siberian border, might smash at Russia's Asian end. This was Russia's crucial hour...
...crucial board, Messrs. Rapee & Fry of the Cavendish team bid three diamonds, made five, scored 150 points (including so-point bonus for under-game contract). Playing the same hand in another room, Messrs. Hazen & Frey of the Bridge Whist team bid five hearts, were doubled, redoubled, made their bid, and, being vulnerable, scored 1,100 points. The money hand, opened by Hazen with a daring three-heart...
Most of the action took place in Tiger territory, as the Crimson team pressed Princeton throughout the game, but at the crucial moments the Nassau forwards broke through on scrums and effectively prevented the Crimson backs from joining in the offense. Tom Mountain, former Tiger grid star, and high scorer for the Harvard club never really got started as the opposition's forwards cooperated to keep him bottled...