Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifty Battlegrounds. The crucial phase of the 1954 congressional campaign was at hand. And while the 37 Senate races will tend to steal most of the headlines, politicos of both parties were working desperately to win control of the House, where -with all 435 seats up for election-a victory would be hailed as the true indication of the mood of the U.S. in 1954. How does the fight for the House shape...
Localized Pain. Although both Rayburn and the Republicans stressed national aspects of the campaign last week, no great national issues-beyond support of Eisenhower-have yet developed to influence the battle for all the 50 crucial seats. The political pain is largely localized. Items...
...Braves have a tight infield, good pitching, and a magician of their own-former Giant Bobby Thomson, who hit baseball's most famed home run: a ninthinning playoff blast against the Dodgers to win the 1951 pennant for New York. At week's end, facing a crucial three-game series with the Giants, the Braves faltered, stood a formidable 4½ games off the pace. But the Giants were ready. By spoonfeeding his puny pitching staff, Manager Leo Durocher had saved his two aces: southpaw, Johnny Antonelli, 24, who has won 20 games, nearly a quarter...
...larger revolt than anticipated by U.S. diplomats, and a crucial factor in their misreading...
...disappearance into the Soviet zone as "shocking," but he insisted that the former West German security chief had no Western military secrets: "The damage he can cause is not so great as was thought at first." Adenauer freely acknowledged the error in giving so unstable a man so crucial a responsibility: "That he was not suited for it is clear...