Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnny-come-lately to the public service, while Wagner has been in public life for sixteen years. Halley flashed to eminence in the Kefauver hearings. Wagner has built his reputation brick by brick. Halley has held one office, President of the City Council, in which he voted on crucial issues with a fickleness that raises doubts as to his sincerity. Wagner has been State Assemblyman, head of the New York Planning Commission, chief of the Housing Commission and Manhattan Borough President, administering each office in a capable, if plodding manner. As long as capability is preferred to color, sincerity...
...these figures are deceiving, according to the scientists, who insist that students are at the crucial age in drinking development during college. "Each advancing year increases the probability that experimentation in the adult custom of drinking will be tried,' they claim...
...crucial play of the game followed, as Cox, with runners on first and second and no men out, bunted up the third base line. Berra fired his throw to third base, and Hodges was called out on a close play...
...total about 300,000 men. They are arranged in six regular divisions, under able, boyish-looking General Vo Nguyen Giap. The U.S.S.R. is supplying them with arms, moved by Red China via the railway from Nanning, which runs south into the huge Viet Minh concentration in northern Viet Nam, crucial sector of the war. The Reds are well supplied with artillery, mortars and recoilless cannon, as well as machine guns and automatic hand weapons. Some of the enemy's arms come from the big Skoda works in Czechoslovakia. In the seven years of war, the Viet Minh have suffered...
...divided world watched in united suspense last week as the people of West Germany fought the cold war with ballots. The battle, crucial to the global struggle between the democratic West and the Communist East, swirled around one man-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...