Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the wheat rippled golden and willowy. Everywhere, wheat farmers seemed inclined to grumble about the weather, the farm program, or both. At week's end in 36 states the) trooped into courthouses, schoolrooms and church halls to vote on the system of federal wheat quotas-a crucial issue for farmers and the nation...
...well as a reputation as a staff idea man during World War II. When General LeMay took command of the Strategic Air Command he sought the brightest young officers in the Air Force. One of the first he picked was Montgomery, who became Director of Operations for the crucial years of SAC training and growth from 1949 to 1953, when he took over his last command...
...France for four months in 1953. An able banker-businessman who has a family connection with the wealthy Rothschilds, Mayer served with De Gaulle in North Africa during World War II. Later, as chief spokesman for the hard-shelled North African colons, it was he who delivered the crucial, brutal Assembly speech which brought down his fellow Radical Socialist and arch-political foe, Premier Pierre Mendès-France (TIME, Feb. 14). He is a sufficiently good European to satisfy the Catholic M.R.P. members of Faure's coalition Cabinet, but he tempers his enthusiasm with enough pragmatic caution...
...landslide, but the victory gave Prime Minister Eden a majority of 59 seats, and a working ma jority of 67 seats over the Laborite Opposition. It meant an end to years of narrow majorities, nerve-racking party discipline and last-minute scrabbling in the corridors to squeeze crucial measures through Parliament. For the first time in 90 years, the party in power was re-elected with an increased majority...
...cards were put on the table at a crucial bargaining session in the Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. There, after seven weeks of sparring behind closed doors, Ford made its major counter-offer to the U.A.W.'s demands for G.A.W...