Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presenting these three men the Council displayed lamentable insincerity and irresponsibility when faced with a crucial situation in which the conscientious exercise of sincerity and responsibility is imperative, especially on the part of a quasi-official spokesman for a segment of the Harvard student body. This can only result in increasing the panic of the defenders of universities and deepening the intransigence of their attackers...
...sentence "I am guilty," the positivist is concerned with the word "guilty," while the Christian existentialist considers "I" the crucial word...
Carroll F. Getchell, HAA Business Manager, said yesterday, "The crucial problem is one of finance. In England the meets draw very well, but they are not nearly so popular over here. In the past, the American schools have had to bear the burden of expense, no matter where the meets are held. As an economy measure, we plan only one meet this year. Oxford and Cambridge will run in a meet with Harvard and Yale, and Princeton and Cornell. But, unless we can solve the problem of finance, the meet may have to be called...
...precinct caucuses in Texas last May, his information convinced him that the Eisenhower forces would have a majority, but the Taft forces would probably bolt and hold rump sessions. Before the Texas cloud was even sighted on the national political scene, Brownell had decided that Texas was the crucial G.O.P. state, and had flown there to map his strategy. He called the signals on the Texas battle, and it proved to be the beginning of the Eisenhower breakthrough...
...with the Minnesotans; he had simply made sure that they were exposed to facts which he knew would bring them around. Triple Telephoning. The best example of Brownell at work was his negotiating with John Fine and Arthur Summerfield. He parceled other states out to his aides, but kept crucial, uncommitted Pennsylvania and Michigan to handle himself. Brownell's information from his contacts in those states was so good that he could tell Fine and Summerfield things they didn't know about their own delegations. His reputation as a political operator was such that they believed...