Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler's most vital objective in all Russia is the Caucasus. On that bridge of land between the Black and Caspian Seas lie fields which give Russia 93% of her war-blood: oil. Last week the British appeared to have made the crucial decision to help the Russians keep Hitler away from Caucasian oil as long as possible...
Wedge. The crucial question in the Ukraine was whether the force kettled near Kiev was most of the southern defensive force or whether there were still enough Russians to put up more fight. The question was answered by the Germans...
Last week Axis planes raided Cairo, cultural center of the Moslem world. This act brought Great Britain face to face with a crucial decision: to bomb Rome or not to bomb Rome...
...Joseph Stalin was studying the greatest battle in history. One night the ballet season came to Moscow. A great Moscow crowd applauded the lyricism of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. But this year it was not for Joseph Stalin, who loves the ballet. He was absorbed with the most crucial reflections and decisions of his life. And now with a British mission in Moscow and a U.S. mission on the way, Occidentals caught occasional glimpses of the Dictator, learned how he lived, how he worked, how he thought...
...like a torn and faded snapshot that turns out to be crucial evidence at a murder trial, the Treasury's order may serve one long-term purpose. This was the only aspect of the census that really frightened the big international camera-duckers: the U.S. might use it as a club in post-war negotiations. With assets physically under its jurisdiction, and so recorded under oath, the U.S. could dicker as to their release to their country of origin after the war; could if need be insist that they be invested in U.S. industry (rather than withdrawn...