Word: crux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crux of Alsop's proposition for world peace was power politics. "We have power, economic and technological strength more gigantic than our eastern adversary," he claimed, and advocated hog-tying Russia's expansion policy by securing the friendship and economic control of her neighbors by means of the Marshall Plan...
...crux of the plot appears soon after. Parks is grabbed as a hostage, is recovered by his own clan who are then ambushed after they have just thrown a shake-and-be-friends banquet for the rival clan (following all this?) Parks has just time enough to grab his sword and change in his photogeuie, canary-yellow fencing jacket before he sets matters right. Tempers have quieted down in the end, but the colors are still blazing...
...Crux of Everingham's proposals is the recommendation that all Council elections and polling be put in the hands of one member from the time voting takes place to the counting of ballots. The Council is expected to make the selection at its forthcoming meeting...
...crux of Widener's inability to serve College students centers on the disproportionate amount of freedom granted men doing stack work. Unrestricted as to the number of books he may take into a stall, a research student is permitted to retire an essential text from service for an indefinite length of time. Although subject to recall, books scattered throughout the stalls and faculty offices are often impossible to track down. Men browsing through the stacks misplace large numbers of books, and stalls are outfitted with bookcases which admittedly encourage the acquisition of a private library...
...hierarchy of the great masters, the greatest have a quality beyond the temporal, which Picasso lacks, and shock tactics are not a final way to alter human vision. The crux and center of Picasso's art is, in my view, hysteria, and in this he so echoes the prevailing evil of his age that he seems to be its prophet...