Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past 50 years, have made the narrow green belt along the Nile one of the most densely populated areas on earth. On the inflammable subject of the Suez Canal, the young officers have frequently sunk to old-style rabble-rousing, only to show a welcome moderation at crucial moments. Naguib and his fellow officers have also shown themselves devout Moslems without creating a theocratic state: Naguib astonished his Arab neighbors by sending greetings to the Egyptian Jews at Passover...
Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, 64, France's tough, seven-starred No. 2 soldier, will set up a new, unified headquarters as Commander in Chief, Allied Forces in Central Europe. Previously, at Eisenhower's insistence, air, sea and ground forces in that crucial sector were under direct control of SHAPE. Juin's appointment is designed to soothe Frenchmen who feel that France does not have enough high-ranking positions in NATO...
This week, as the time came for the crucial vote, the House was filled and tense. But Joe Martin had a remarkably cheerful air. The reason: his agents had reported that the Rules Committee recommendation could carry by a 30-vote margin, and he had just used this leverage to good effect on both Democrats and Republicans on Dan Reed's Ways & Means Committee. After a long quorum call, Martin gave the floor to Charlie Halleck for a surprising announcement: the G.O.P. leadership had decided not to ask for a vote on the Rules Committee's EPT report...
...Trek. The ascent had been planned with the thoroughness of a commando raid: vast preparation for a brief but crucial hour. The expedition assembled in March at Katmandu, capital of Nepal. Its leader was John Hunt, 43, a grizzled British colonel whose knowledge of mountains (Kangchenjunga, K-36) and men (in World War II, he commanded Pathans, Gurkhas, Dogras and Scots) quickly won respect...
Bartered Ballots. Campaigners on both sides had reckoned the election too crucial to be left entirely to the voters' consciences, so they brought with them some $30,000 in cash. Everywhere, talk turned to the price of a vote. "I wanted 300 pesos [$3]," an old man was heard to say, "but they offered me only 230. There is no limit to the way they abuse the common people." The atmosphere of barter infected all Coihueco. Cabled TIME Correspondent Mario Planet: "I had to give 10 pesos to a little girl before she would tell...