Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case poses a crucial point. If the Uniform Code is constitutional, it could conceivably mean that in the future no ex-serviceman will be wholly beyond the reach of military justice. On the other hand, if Toth wins his freedom from the Air Force, he will probably never stand trial, since the case is clearly outside the jurisdiction of any civil court. For Toth, a long series of courtroom struggles and appeals lies ahead, and the end could bring him anything from scot-freedom to death before a firing squad...
...endorsed his position on the contested delegations -a move which was instrumental in swinging the nomination his way. During the campaign, Ike leaned heavily on such individual governors as New Hampshire's Sherman Adams, Nebraska's Val Peterson and New York's Tom Dewey for his crucial decisions...
...blow to democracy in Italy, and a blow to the Western alliance. Italy had, temporarily at least, rejected the leader who for eight years had fought steadfastly for parliamentary democracy while surrounded by parliamentarians dedicated to the destruction of democracy. The West had, at a crucial moment, lost its staunch apostle of NATO, EDC and European unification. "Italy may be entering upon a new period of political disturbance and uncertainty," mourned the London Times. "Signor de Gasperi's defeat is a shock to the complacency about the political stability of the Western world...
...West's Big Three dramatically renounced the plan on March 20, 1948. Instead, the U.S., Britain, and France flatly came out for "the return of the Free Territory of Trieste to Italian sovereignty as the best solution." That pledge helped De Gasperi beat the Communists in the crucial 1948 elections...
Professor Hlavaty believes that it will now be possible to test the unified field theory experimentally, but the crucial experiment, he says, has not yet been devised...