Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political suicide. In his statement yesterday, McCarthy once again announced that he will give his full support to any and all Republican controal of Congress. The address brought a clarification of the Senator's views, however. In stating that he continued to regard Communism in government as a crucial issue, he said that he will concern his campaign with the Roosevelt and Truman administrations; he assumed that any who remained would be cleaned out by next fall...
...over the war. The listless fighting of the Bao Dai forces has demonstrated that a guarantee of complete independence within a few years is the prerequisite to raising more troops. By undermining the appeal of the Communist anti-imperialist slogans, this promise would also weaken the Red clutch on crucial Northern Viet-Nam. Not only pride out conscience should compel the French to set up the goal of independence so the Indo-Chinese natives can the goal of independence so the Indo-Chinese natives can be taught to do for themselves what Europeans have been unable to do for them...
When Harvard was forced to kick on the next series, Brown came back and threatened to tie the score. But with fourth down and four to go and the ball on the Crimson 32, Brown kicked. This was the crucial decision, a bad one because there was little to be gained by a kick and the ball rolled into the end zone for a net gain of 12 yards...
...very conciseness of the film, however, detracts slightly from its long-range impression. The crucial matter of Prewitt's masochistic devotion to the Army is, for example, never given much more of a basis than his muttered, "If it weren't for the Army, I wouldn't have learned how to bugle." The book had the space to go far back into Prewitt's boyhood, and thus give a more convincing picture of a man who had known but one family, one friend, one lover in his life, and that the Army. From Here to Eternity runs for a little...
...snappy convertible, pulling up at a filling station operated by French Premier Joseph Laniel and ordering $385 million worth of French blood. (The U.S. recently decided to increase dollar aid to France that amount to carry on the Indo-China war.) In the National Assembly, during a crucial debate on Indo-China policy, ex-Premier Edouard Daladier echoed L'Humanite's blood & dollars theme. After tolling off the well-known drainages (76,000 casualties and $5 billion) and frustrations of France's seven-year war against Communism in Asia, Daladier said: "One of the parties brings dollars...