Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Questions & Answers. The step was climactic, pricked with crucial questions. The Teamsters comprise the largest single union in the federation; its 1,400,000 members pay $840,000 a year in per capita dues to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; its burly truck drivers can make or break strikes in almost all key industries, and the Teamster bosses had let the word get out that they might be tempted to get even with the unions that voted against them. A morass of tie-ups, a campaign of raids, could splinter, perhaps even destroy the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...program, Bach's Suite No. 3 in D, showed immediately the tremendous improvement in the violins, whose tone is beginning to sound professional. The 'cellos and basses sounded weak, as they did later in the concerto, and they failed to provide the strength and insistence so essential to the crucial bass line in both Bach and Brahms. It was also disappointing to have the "French overture" rhythms played incorrectly, losing all their force...
...that this master builder is a member of the very younger generation against which Ibsen's master builder carries on the fight that is the heart of the play. Yet Jordan has excellence; when he underplays, he is usually most persuasive, and in the voicing of passionate or solemn crucial passages, e.g. the line "Homes for human beings," he is outstanding. Even if Jordan is not a complete master builder, he is often brilliant, and nearly always forceful...
...varsity football team plays its most crucial game of the year this afternoon when it faces a powerful Dartmouth eleven at 2 p.m. in the Stadium...
Dartmouth's linemen occasionally broke through the Harvard halfbacks, and had several fine opportunities to score. They worked well individually, but the few times one man slipped by fullbacks Charlie Steele and Lanny Keyes into clear scoring positions they missed a crucial set-up pass, or dribbled the ball a few feet too far towards goalie Tom Bagnoli, who then dove...