Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overturned by absolute major ities (at present, 314 votes) on votes of confidence. French politicians, anxious to hold on to their red plush seats, were too canny to be intimidated. They maneuvered their votes so that Laniel lost his vote of confidence (306 to 293) but not by the crucial 314 votes. The line-up against him included: 96 Communists, 104 of the 105 Socialists, 33 of the 76 Radical Socialists and 44 of the 75 Gaullists. Laniel had lasted just 14 days short of a full year, the second-longest-lived postwar government...
June of 1929 saw a superb baseball team beaten in two games by Yale despite fine fielding by Captain Donaghy, and crucial hits by Prior and Durkee. Captain Clark's crew had a mediocre season under the tutelage of Coach J. C. Brown, as it twice placed third in triangle regattas. After experimenting all year, Brown finally settled on James Lawrence, an Olympic four oarsman, as his stroke for the New London race...
Survival possibilities which Thomas Danforth, the first treasurer, pondered with growing concern in the 1650's are taken for granted by Cabot's going concern of the 1950's. Financial affairs were so crucial during Danforth's reign that President Dunster decided to handle them himself...
...past year Lauro, whose shipping business puts him in intimate contact with many government officials, has favored lending the Monarchists' 39 parliamentary votes to the Christian Democrats on crucial issues, to prevent a collapse that might open the door to the Red Socialists and Communists. Covelli preferred to hold back and gamble that the Christian Democrats would be forced to solicit Monarchist support-for a heavy political price...
Citation: "Now commanding the forces of the U.S. and of the United Nations in a crucial area of strategic concern in the free world's effort to halt the spread of Communism, keeper of the alert watchfulness and bearer of the prayerful hopes of free...