Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blossomed red when the Army's reliable Redstone took a nuclear warhead up an estimated 100 miles and exploded it in the thin air on space's edge-a high-altitude test, say intelligence reports, that came ten months behind a similar U.S.S.R. shot in the crucial race for the anti-bomber and antimissile missile (see SCIENCE). Next day Air Force missilemen at Cape Canaveral, Fla. sent their mightiest beast, a 100-ton three-engined Atlas-B ballistic missile, on its first successful full-power flight...
...first reluctant to spend as much time away from the Radiation Lab as his new job will require, Chancellor-elect Seaborg has pledged himself to "keep uppermost in.mind the crucial and classical function of a university in society: to foster free inquiry and teaching under the highest possible standards of objective scholarship." But many scientists will still wonder whether one of the world's best chemists should pour himself into the world of university management-which, even at one of the best campuses in the nation, consists largely of parking problems, building plans and ruffled regents...
...last summer was an extraordinarily complex one; and it is no reflection on Adrian if he cannot match it. Adrian's Shylock is simpler and more straightforward, and wholly consistent. And he adopts a faster tempo than most actors, avoiding exaggeration and the temptation to make every word a crucial...
...outsider could tell, many Iraqis welcomed the coup and almost all accepted it. Yet it was only a handful of plotters who changed the history of Iraq. Later intelligence suggests that they acted earlier than they had intended, worried by Nuri's dispatch of one of the crucial colonels to Jordan...
...week's end, Fanfani, still moving with brisk efficiency, which has won him the nickname "Il Motorino" (the little motor), got confirmed as Premier by a Senate margin of 17 votes, and this week faces the more crucial Chamber of Deputies, where he is expected to be confirmed only narrowly...