Word: crux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crux of the Chinese dispute with Russia remained Moscow's propaganda line of peaceful coexistence with the West. This policy, said Peking scornfully, was plucked out of "some mystical book from Heaven"; moreover, those who dare to disagree are treated "as heretics deserving to be burned at the stake. How can the Chinese Communists agree? They cannot. It is impossible...
...consider the case, thereby upholding Deerfield's action-and in effect giving sanction to segregation-through-condemnation. Commenting on the court's refusal, Federal Housing Administrator Robert Weaver said: "The danger now lies in just how prevalent this condemnation device will become. That's the real crux...
...tune of the Dragnet theme and much hissing). This time, Mulberry has snagged the innocent daughter of businessman Harvey Smith, whose name breathes dollars. With piercing insight, Milly recognizes that Mulberry is in love with Alice Smith only for her money, and she immediately plunges to the crux of her hopeless moral dilemma...
Blood-Drenched Lies. Twain takes a humorist's advantage of the Bible: he makes the worst possible case for it by interpreting it as literally as possible. The crux of his complaint is his inability to reconcile a good God with all the suffering he saw in the world-an age-old problem that has bothered greater minds and produced greater musings. In the guise of Satan, Twain writes his letters to the Archangels Michael and Gabriel explaining the bizarre beliefs of mortals on a variety of topics: ON GOD: "It is most difficult to understand the disposition...
...crux of Leet's complaint is that the Berkner panel, formed to study the problems of test detection, excluded professional seismologists. They only members of the panel who had any seismological experience were what Leet calls, not derisively but not respectfully, "doodlebuggers,." This is a popular term for seismic prospect seismologists, electronic engineers who use a fraction of the know-how of earthquake seismology. Leet himself is an earthquake station seismologist. His application to work for AFTAC, a unit that presently constitutes the Air Force Vela Uniform test detection project, was turned down on the grounds that Harvard...