Word: crux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correlation of field observations with experimental laboratory reactions is the crux of the research problem according to Francis Birch, professor of Geology and director of the Geophysical Laboratory. He hopes that large scale field work will show whether laboratory determined pressure gradients continue evenly down to greater depths...
Through the din of debate, three facts emerged: 1) the M.R.P. had resolved to conciliate the Communists to the limit, in order to preserve M.R.P.-Socialist-Communist coalition government; 2) the crux of the debate was the question of presidential powers; 3) behind the question of presidential powers loomed the presence of General Charles de Gaulle...
...paradox of the admissions situation, at the crux of the housing problem, has been compared by one of the harassed University officials involved to a five o'clock bus: everyone crowds to get on and complains if he fails, but if he succeeds he screams that his toes are being stepped...
...were aboard the cruisers that fateful night have been rightfully indignant at being referred to by the press as the "sitting duck cruisers" (we were steaming at 12 knots as specified by naval defense plans), but the crux of all insults was the inference in your article that the men in command of the individual ships were not of the caliber to hold such responsibilities. ... If there was ever an unreasonable martinet, a Captain Bligh of the U.S. Navy-Captain Bode was it, but when it came to naval warfare, logical thinking, cool judgment and action...
...crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Is it not attended by material and spiritual evils which far exceed whatever the good that might result? When will our moralists give us a clear answer to this question...