Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose words and deeds are most crucial to the negotiations at Geneva is a small, enigmatic Frenchman who set out to teach history, not to help make it. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, 54, speaks for the divided mind and flagging spirit of France. But his own mind is undivided: more than most Frenchmen, he has a passionate dislike of the Communists...
...justice, but a brutal stamping out of landlords and recalcitrants, a mass injustice in which all had to participate and to share the complicity. Even inside the party there is loyalty trouble. Item: ". . . It is of paramount necessity," warned Party Dogmatist Liu Shao-chi last February, "that at this crucial stage all comrades . . . must wage unrelenting struggle against those who deliberately undermine party unity, stand up against the party, persist in refusing to correct their errors...
...Italians got Trieste following the first World War, lost it in the second. Eight years ago, however, to influence crucial elections, the Western "Big Threee" promised the return of the Trieste area, with its predominantly Italian population. A few months later, when Yugoslavia made its historic switch, what had seemed a smooth propaganda move became a diplomatic nightmare...
...millionaire was closer, at this crucial point, than anyone realized. He generously donated $300,000 for the construction of a new span across the Charles as a memorial to his father. The Philanthropist was Colonel Larz Anderson '88, Ambassador to Japan, a world traveller who first thought of giving the bridge when vacationing in Rome. A friend wrote later, "I well remember the day he and I stood on the old Bridge of the Quattro Capi, built in memory of some old Roman worthy, and agreed that it was the best of all memorials...
After their momentous decision was made, Khokhlov's problem became simply one of following orders-up to the crucial point. With two East German Communists who were to serve as his assistants, Khokhlov went to work. The Germans went through refresher courses in judo, marksmanship and automobile driving. Khokhlov pored over maps of Frankfurt, studied brochures on the NTS and conferred with his boss Panyushkin over weapons and methods...