Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national defense gets told fully and well-a duty of exquisite sensitivity. Against the strictures of national security he must nicely weigh the nation's right to know. He must assure that the enemy is steadily impressed with the facts of U.S. deterrent might. The man in this crucial job is Murray Snyder, 47, ex-reporter. His title: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs...
With Herter holding the title and ultimate responsibility and Dillon holding the high respect of Herter, White House and Congress, these two men would be running the West's most important diplomatic post for at least a few crucial weeks...
Nowhere has this failure of quality in public office been more grievous or more consistent than in the crucial field of diplomatic relations. Eisenhower, while professing a desire for more career appointments and disclaiming political criteria, has repeatedly placed wealthy Republican businessmen in key embassies throughout the world...
Especially praiseworthy was McClellan, who, under the pressure created by hoots and catcalls, sank seven free throws without a miss, all at crucial times. He ended up with 15 points, behind Harrington and Richling, who led the attack with 18 and 16 respectively...
...Bonn airport when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, en route from successful visits to London and Paris, was personally welcomed by West Germany's rocklike Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Said Dulles warmly: "It is not necessary to re-examine the fundamentals. They are fixed, solid and unshaken." The crucial point: whatever the "tactical flexibility" deployed for the inevitable Big Four talks on Germany this spring, the West is still fixed, solid and unshaken on the basic proposition that to Communism there is no truth, and faith can be extended only to agreements that can be checked, patrolled and examined...