Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want one of the most crucial jobs in the Western world? At this absurd point, Winston Churchill stepped in: he proffered his own closest wartime comrade and personal friend, 64-year-old General Lord Ismay...
...crucial days of early 1942, Australia compelled Winston Churchill to send home its ground units from the Middle East to protect its own shores from the Japanese. Last week, for the first time since then, Australia moved back into the Middle East. It announced that it would send an R.A.A.F. jet fighter wing to help the British, and provide support for a new international Middle East Command...
...worse than the coverage of these reporters with their self-styled "Unique will and skill and guts" is the level of their research. Within the sidelines of the libel laws they make about every charge that can be made, always tailoring their material for that crucial, reader-pleasing evidence of Communism, New Dealism, Socialism, "Homosexualism," and the Mafia. They shift into overdrive when it is imposible to check them. One of the passages which will probably titillate historians in years to come is their version of what former New York Mayor William O'Dwyer was doing...
...inconsistency is the production's crucial flaw, and it is writer-director Verneuil's fault. Although the pace never flags, although several of the jokes are funny, and although the basic situation is sound enough, the play cannot overcome this weakness. Reginald Owen, for instance, starts off his characterization of a retired Secretary of State with finest premium ham. Half way through, he becomes a shrewd man. Owen executes both neither has much to do with the other...
...Battle. The 625 members of the House of Commons were summoned into session by "three-line whips"-notices underlined three times to indicate a crucial subject. The public galleries were jammed, and outside hundreds of other Britons queued up hoping to get in. Even the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen's husband, took a seat in the Peers' Gallery...