Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson and a few friends left the Chicago Yacht Club, got into a taxi, and headed back to his living quarters at the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel. Three days before, Harry Truman had struck. Stevenson was still crowding his hours with visits and visitors, handshakes, receptions, whisperings, conferences. Yet the crucial matters of the moment now seemed strangely suspended, like a mural of some bygone battle posted on a restaurant wall. It was a lovely yacht club, Stevenson mused; the new terrace was a perfect place for outdoor entertaining. Had anybody noticed the large number of yachts moored near...
...Majority. With the battle lines thus clearly drawn, the voting began. On the first four ballots, La Pira ran consistently two or three votes behind his Communist-line opponent, but neither candidate got the necessary absolute majority of 31 votes. Finally came the crucial fifth ballot when, by Italian law, the candidate with the most votes wins whether or not he has an absolute majority. Intently the tight-packed crowd listened as the clerk called out the results: blank ballots-6; Nenni Socialist Raffaello Ramat-27; La Pira...
...General Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft said: "The World Council lives its own life in complete independence from any particular political system or economic system or ideology." To people who believe that the conflict between Communism and Christianity is not merely political, economic or ideological, but a crucial matter of faith, some of the proceedings in Hungary must have sounded puzzling and perhaps alarming...
...must arouse more interest in his candidacy, Harriman follows an equally clear strategic plan: joggle the Baby. His crucial moment will come when the Democratic resolutions committee meets in Chicago Aug. 6 to hammer out a party platform. His main effort is aimed at using civil rights as an explosive issue to blow the roof off convention hall-and the nomination out of Stevenson's hands...
...compelling intellectual thriller is that Author Wilson uses bits and pieces of these men and their literary progeny as pigments for his portrait of a kind of invisible man, an invisible man who has shaped and may reshape the image that 20th century man has of himself and his crucial dilemmas. It is a pity of sorts that U.S. readers, short of ordering the book from England, will not be able to meet The Outsider until it is published in the U.S. next winter...