Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Romulo wing calculated it needed only one break on the convention floor to win a majority of delegates. But that one break was crucial. Since many of the delegates were Quirino jobholders or otherwise beholden to him, Romulo demanded a secret ballot. Quirino's professionals deftly outmaneuvered Romulo by taking an open ballot to decide whether to hold a secret ballot. Just as a sudden thunderstorm broke overhead, the results were announced: 243 for the secret ballot, 644 against it. When Romulo's Floor Manager Tomas Cabili added up the figures, the convention broke into a thunderstorm...
...enunciating the famous, rabble-rousing funeral oration. Less clear in his performance is that mercurial combination of demagogue and patriot, of force and "quick spirit" that is Antony's character. But Brando's characterization is more than competent, and his smouldering, sullen personality adds excitement to a crucial role...
What they tendered was a new, eight-point plan, the crucial feature of which is a provision that the prisoners who refuse to return to Communist hands should stay in Korea, under the supervision of a five-nation "repatriation commission," until their "apprehensions" are "eliminated." Originally, the Communists had insisted that the 48,000 balky prisoners be transported to a neutral nation, which the U.N. rejected as completely impractical. The five "neutral" nations proposed by the Reds: Poland. Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, India...
Brown scored 41 points in Saturday's races to keep the Crimson only ten plonts behind M.I.T. Hoppin, desk-bound by a crucial architecture assignment, took over on Sunday, won three races, and clinched the title...
...below tournament class. His game was once described by Ely Culbertson as "classic, sound, with flashes of brilliance." His favorite bridge partner, NATO's General Alfred Gruenther, is one of the few military men who have long been regarded as better than Ike at the game.* After one crucial hand, in which they were soundly set, Partners Eisenhower and Gruenther mulled over the game play in an exchange of letters that went on for two years...