Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm-bill gamble, but his driving tactics eventually stirred up some resentment among the hard-pressed troops. "Charlie is holding our feet to the fire too much," carped one G.O.P. Congressman. The resentment converged on the President's health-reinsurance plan. Deciding that the bill was not crucial to the Administration, 75 Republicans threw off Halleck's harness, jumping the traces to defeat the bill. Health reinsurance was Politician Halleck's sacrifice play, the price of delivery on other measures...
...brilliantly. But the chief attraction, as usual, was the staging. Wieland sees Tannhäuser as a harried misfit in a world of rigid conventions. Dressed in a black cloak (while the other minstrels wear brown), he moves among stiff, almost mechanized people of the court. Preparing for the crucial song contest in the second act-usually staged with casual confusion-uniformly dressed men and women march into the hall in stiff military style. But the orgiastic Venusberg scene, set in flowing concentric circles of light, is heavily sensual: the ballet flings itself into bumps and grinds that rival...
...spare, stooped leader of postwar Italian democracy stepped down last week out of active politics. Before a meeting of his party's National Council, Alcide de Gasperi, 73, for eight crucial years his country's Premier, relinquished the powerful key job of secretary general of the Christian Democrats and took the purely honorary post of president of the party council...
Back at sea level Izzard was 18 lbs. lighter, but pounds (sterling) richer in bonus money. His feat made fat headlines and dazzling copy. It also gave him a clean beat on the Times, during the first crucial days of the expedition that conquered Mount Everest, though the Times beat everyone on the big story, the climb to Everest's summit...
...jets, since they have just invested some $250 million for new fleets of prop-driven planes. But with Boeing's 707, the pressure is on: the first big U.S. airline to buy the 707 will force the others to follow. Bill Allen is betting that he gets that crucial order. While his new jet will cost upwards of $4,000,000 v. $1,850,000 for a Douglas DC-7. Allen thinks the 707 will pay off. Its greater size and speed will enable it to do 2½ times the work of a DC-7 or Super Constellation...