Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several years ago, Leo salvaged a game against a second-division club by relieving with his ace on the eve of a traditionally "crucial" Dodger-Cardinal series. To bemused sports writers he explained: "I play today's game today. Who knows? It could rain tomorrow...
...planes. Widower Stewart says goodbye to his gravely precocious daughter (Janette Scott) and shambles aboard a Reindeer. The trip starts brightly enough; a pretty stewardess (Glynis Johns) pampers him, and Movie Star Dietrich dozes just across the aisle. Then he learns that the plane is just past its crucial point of strain...
...this is because University statutes fix the start of the Christmas vacation and the beginning of the Spring Term in such a way that the crucial time between them varies with the calendar...
High Commissioner and commander in chief, he has been fighting one of freedom's bloodiest and most crucial battles. He had left the front to come to the U.S. on an urgent mission: to see the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and get more U.S. aid for Indo-China, the rampart against the Communist surge toward Singapore and the Indies...
...very much in the "dirty war" itself; while that war continues to drain from France what the U.S. puts in, France cannot be expected to pull her full weight in NATO. In Indo-China the battle lines of Asia and Europe merge. This is the crucial point which Douglas MacArthur fought to prove, i.e., that Communism cannot go unchecked in Asia and still be defeated in Europe...