Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before the race, a national network asked me to conduct a two-way radio program between Woolf in a Boston broadcasting studio and Pollard in his hospital room. I gave Pollard, whose leg was in traction, a carefully prepared script, but he dropped it on the floor at a crucial point of the broadcast . . . Woolf had just asked The Cougar how he should ride Seabiscuit in the match. 'Why, Georgie boy,' Pollard ad-libbed, 'just ride your usual race. Get left at the post and louse it up from there on in.' Woolf and Seabiscuit...
...decision of Fra Angelico and his brother, who became Fra Benedetto, to present themselves at the doors of the small Dominican monastery, set in a vineyard at the foot of the hill of Fiesole outside Florence, came at a crucial time. A wave of reform was sweeping the Dominican monasteries of Italy; revived humanism, based on study of recently rediscovered classic manuscripts, was threatening the church with a new kind of paganism. The new convent of San Domenico, then less than two years in existence, was a spearhead of the reformed order of Dominican Observants. Its leader, the eloquent...
These statements represent the culmination of a grad "Geneva spirit" just as much. Worse, in taking a poke at the Russians he has unnecessarily infuriated a nation whose friendship is crucial, thus making the Russian strategy doubly effective. It seems that Mr. Dulles has again cut off our national nose to spite our patriotic face. ual change in the policy of large labor groups. At the inception of the AFL, the organization steadfastly refused to take political action, relying mainly on building up the processes of collective bargaining. Founder Samuel Gompers warned the fledgling Federation that political action could prove...
...sloppiness of play, however, did not obscure two outstanding individual performances. Dick Hurley, a hard-driving forward with an accurte jump shot, scored 13 points, 11 in the second period, and set up several crucial baskets in the final minutes...
...miscarriage of justice. That the body was never positively identified is due to the antiquated methods of the Mississippi police, which has never been noted for scientific medico-legal methods. What is surprising, however, is that the NAACP, which certainly knew that the body's identification would be the crucial issue, did not use some of its own resources to pin down the identification. It may have been, of course, that such was done, and that no positive evidence (dental records, X-rays, etc.) could be obtained...