Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main factors behind the Crimson's triumph. The varsity's defense was poor, the shooting was way off, and the offensive rebounding was often absent. Nevertheless, the team won partly by outscoring the Jumbos, 25 to 21, from the foul line, and by managing to score at the crucial times...
...natural tendency in these times to shrug off Latin affairs and foreign relations as a minor, relatively obscure section of world politics. It is this very attitude which helps to increase the sluggish, lackadaisical concern with the area. Of Course there are world sections undergoing much more crucial developments. Nonetheless, the anti-Yankee campaigns of Peron, the nationalization of many industries, notably in Bolivia and Venezuela, and the infiltration of Communism are not developments to be treated lightly. And although Latin America is not generally considered a dangerous section, the Far East was in the same category...
...world area, the course lack is particularly bad. This is South America. Here the gap is not due to G.E.'s inability to keep up with changing events. Rather, G.E., like the many State Department policy-makers and the North American press generally, has completely overlooked this crucial world section...
...Exports to the United Kingdom dropped 84% (from ?33 to ?5 million) largely because of a slump in the Lancashire textile industry, which halted Britain's purchase of Egypt's crucial cotton crop. Imports from Britain fell 28% (from ?35 to ?25 million...
...courage, his calm and modest determination, and his sense of high purpose have infected all those whom he has touched. Now these same qualities call him to a new task, and certainly it too is a crucial one. We cannot pass judgment on his choice, nor can we doubt its wisdom. But we cannot deny a sense of personal loss, because we are students in America and because we are Harvard students...