Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finletter briefly described the background of the present American position and then speculated as to the "uncertainties of the next decade for which our foreign policy must prepare." He emphasized the crucial importance of winning Afro-Asian respect, promoting a split between Russia and China, preventing Russo-Chinese military superiority, strengthening NATO by giving it additional political and military functions, achieving peace in the Near East, and controlling the weapons of the future...
...biggest campaign against a single group of diseases, intensively studying everything that lives, from man through beasts and birds to mushrooms, molds and the lowly virus that causes a mottling disease in tobacco plants. This week TIME, in its cover story, reports in depth and detail on how this crucial battle is going...
...willingness to use it -and the willingness would be a lot plainer if the nation's citizens had the protection of fallout shelters. Said the task force: "The physical ability of families to survive even the most terrifying nuclear attack is, in the ultimate reckoning, a fact of crucial importance to our national security. The will to survive, coupled with the ability to do so, ranks next to military power in the nuclear age as the best deterrent to aggression and the best assurance of final victory over any enemies who might attack...
...love of hashed potatoes, and then to get married. This apparently signifies acceding to the ordinary world. Mr. Langella was excellent as Jack and Dorothy Gurvitz was outstanding as his sister. Karla Feinzig as the girl he is to marry was beautiful, but not terribly good in the crucial seduction scene. Again Tom Davis' sets were very good...
...special one-man show contained a dozen paintings by the American artist Edward Hopper. This should have pleased those with conservative tastes. Hopper chose ordinary, commonplace subjects and painted them almost realistically. But the almost is crucial; for herein lies his personal contribution. Somehow he was able to capture masterfully the moods of lone-liness. The best-known item in this dozen was "The Bootleggers." In it, Hopper painted his clapboard house not white, not gray, but light blue; and this bluishness works an ineffable effect on the beholder...