Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...withdraw our forces from Crete. . . . Some 15,000 [of our] troops have been withdrawn to Egypt but it must be admitted that our losses have been severe." With this bleak announcement the British War Office signalized the end of not only the fiercest but also some of the most crucial fighting in World War II-the airborne invasion of Crete. After the fall of this British outpost, the Mediterranean no longer was a British lake. The concept of the Mediterranean as the Empire's commercial life line has been dead since Italy's entrance into the war forced...
...small books cut through the stale, stalled arguments of isolation v. intervention to the real problem-the problem of U.S. power and morale. Hitler wrote that, for Nazis, morale comes before guns. Those who had watched the moral catastrophe of France knew that for democracies too morale is crucial...
They disclosed that the crucial period in adequate aid defense is between now and late fall. After that the supply and production of planes will be great enough to insure control of the air over both North and South America...
...Since the financial emergency has a significance for Faculty and students not measurable in dollars and cents, the Committee emphatically recommends that the whole question be taken up and discussed in Faculty meeting." This is the crucial statement in the Council's report on the Budget Cut: For if the recommendation is not acted upon, the Administration's hard-headed business man's plan will go through without more than a side glance at the objections...
...went to second when Cleo O'Donnell banged another one-bagger down the third base line after Sandy MacMillan had flied out to Jim McTernan in left. Al Everts took one of Neville's offerings on the shoulder and strolled down to first, loading the bases. Just at this crucial moment, Ned Fitzgibbons came through, as he has a habit of doing, and rapped a long single to deep center, sending Berg and O'Donnell to the plate...