Word: crux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crux of the matter: Wilson's attempt to reach an accord as to how, and at what rate, Moscow would repay a credit of ?55,000,000, resulting from a wartime agreement hastily made with the Soviet Union in 1941 after Hitler invaded Russia. In that, he had failed-the Russians insisted adamantly on terms which the British could not afford to meet. A reporter asked: "Is the door completely shut?" Replied Wilson: "That's up to the Russians...
...Greek Government itself, suddenly saved from ruin, was getting cocky. It liked U.S. assistance, but not the proposed U.S. supervision of that assistance. The crux was a U.S. plan to clean the Augean stable of Greece's economy, and, specifically, the U.S.'s intention to control what kind of goods the notoriously inefficient Greek Government ought to buy with the U.S. loan. Premier Demetrios Maximos and Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris, in an interview with the New York Times, pointedly expressed their hope that the U.S. would restrict itself to an "advisory" role. In the past, the Government...
...this sense, the answer to the problem of history is the answer to the problem of evil. This is the philosophic crux of that act of creation which in the birth of civilizations Toynbee calls Challenge and Response...
...imbroglios of this sort the crux of the matter is size. To read the papers one gathers that the concert business is a giant industry, instead of what it really is: the very smallest part of the amusement world...
...crux of the matter is that the American woolen industry and any other American business is prosperous when business conditions at home are good--and then only. America must rid itself of its surplus production through foreign trade if it is to prosper. And America can export only if it accepts imports of approximate value as repayment. Through the medium of the reciprocal trade agreements, the gradual attainment of these conditions has been made possible. The best interests of the nation will be served if the trend continues toward and not away from tariff reductions...