Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan is too new to have proved itself, and the next few years should provide a crucial test. But, as Reed notes, "we are encouraged by the significant fact that nowhere has anyone questioned that the basic principle is sound...
...decision, therefore, is crucial, when an individual decides to involve himself with one of these attractive activities. The drives that lead to participation differ among
Comrade Maximov was a horrible example in Khrushchev's cautious but crucial struggle with the technocrat commissars, who have been demanding less interference from boards of bureaucratic directors in Moscow, more autonomy in their plants and more control over the men under them, i.e., more freedom, which in Russia can only mean less bother with the party hacks. Recently Khrushchev produced a much publicized scheme for the decentralization of Soviet industry that seemed to answer the demands of the technocrat commissars (TIME, April...
...church in Poland pledged itself to support the government in such crucial national matters as the possession of the western territories taken from Germany after World War II, socialization of Poland and expansion of industry, while the state guaranteed continued freedom of worship, religious education and the church press. Cardinal Sapieha, behind whose back Wyszynski had negotiated the armistice, muttered: "This is not a modus vivendi but a modus moriendi." And a way of dying it certainly appeared...
...case that detracts the most from the book. The work is a microscopic observation of the whole Chambers-Hiss case from Hiss' point-of-view, a point-of-view already well-known. Hiss tells the reader little about his intellectual background, especially his attitude toward radicalism, something that is crucial to the whole Case. One wonders why he does not treat the events before 1948 more freely; why we do not meet his friends of the thirties; and why we do not learn more about his political views. These are some of the questions that one hoped Hiss would answer...