Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elements of one other regiment were trying to hold the line until the marines arrived. Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis called for an air strike to relieve the pressure on his men. The U.S. planes came over, hit the wrong target, and had to be redirected. At this crucial moment Osborne glanced at Michaelis. He was standing, bareheaded, in the street by the radio truck, reading TIME...
...Less crucial predictions go out over the Observatory's radio each day, plus all the administrative messages to Mount Washington, another University weather station...
...forced the first great tactical mistake of the North Koreans. Apparently overestimating the U.S. strength, the Communists chose to deploy (see map). If they had driven straight on with their main armored force, they would have overrun the tiny U.S. contingent and barreled on through, without opposition, to the crucial supply port of Pusan. If they had done that, Douglas MacArthur, instead of receiving victory plaudits in Seoul last week, would probably have been sitting in Tokyo directing the reinvasion of Korea from Japan. MacArthur instantly recognized the Reds' vital error. Some people ridiculed him for saying on July...
Commenting further on the crucial value of education, Griswold said, "If scholars should wait of total war to produce total peace, I doubt that our successors will be assembled here to mark Yale's three hundredth anniversary." Yale was founded...
Gootenberg told what was an unusually heavy turnout of girls for a 'Cliffe political organization that the approaching state vote was "crucial" because the winning party could gerrymander to its advantage. He urged these attending to aid the Liberal Union in canvassing local across in an effort to get out the vote...