Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overflow crowd of reporters, photographers and Congressmen jammed the committee room for the crucial hearing before the Rules Committee. The session was delayed for 47 minutes while Martin, Majority Leader Charles Halleck and Rules Committee Chairman Leo Allen talked to G.O.P. committee members in Allen's private office, trying to nail down a majority vote. Tennessee's Carroll
...constantly and a willingness to take action while still seeking understanding. It is procedure that counts then; while substance is important--witness the contributions of science, for instance--the procedure which four years of collegiate life breeds into those willing to partake in it fully is education's most crucial contribution to a democracy...
Democrat Symington sailed in to defend Vandenberg, the man who wasn't there. By indirection, Symington accused Charlie Wilson of failure to consult Vandenberg, the Air Force chief of staff, on the Air Force budget cuts. It was his understanding, said Symington, that at the time of the crucial NSC meeting, General Vandenberg had not yet been told that the planned slash in the defense budget would come almost entirely out of Air Force funds...
Mika Waltari, one of the most successful of practicing historical novelists (The Egyptian, The Wanderer), has taken this most crucial of all sieges as the subject of hs new book. It is both a lush and a tricky subject, combining the excitement of a historic military occasion with the far-reaching complications of the death of a great Christian state. It is a tribute to Waltari that he succeeds not only in blending the glamour and the disaster of the event but also works in the sort of love story on which, as every historical novelist knows, the fate both...
Late last night Overseers were hurrying to Cambridge from all parts of the nation in order to be present at this morning's crucial and extraordinary meeting. Confirmation of the Corporation's nomince by the Overseers is almost automatic, although in 1868 the naming of President Eliot was delayed for six months by the Overseers...