Word: crux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generals will come up against some weighty counterarguments, however. Many American civilian officials in Saigon believe that many more G.I.s would increase the dependence of the Vietnamese on the Americans. "I am not persuaded that troop levels are the crux of the problem," says one high U.S. official. "I think the big thing we need is a shining example of what life can be like under a proper, representative government." Also, though Hanoi may be approaching the limit of its ability to aid Communist forces in the South, there is still no assurance that it might...
...anesthesiologist, Coppolino had had the opportunity to use it frequently on surgery patients to relax their muscles. Schaub proved to the jurors that it was also used on Carmela, injected into her left buttock in such massive dosage that it paralyzed and within minutes killed her. To carry the crux of his case, the prosecutor relied on the experts-and they came through with explicit, if esoteric evidence. Although scientists never had before been able to find traces of the drug after it had been injected into a patient, pioneering experiments under the direction of veteran New York City Chief...
More important, Johnson's manipulation of the Tonkin Resolution has grievously undermined any role Congress could play in influencing his Vietnam decisions. This is the crux of the dispute -- Fulbright and the eight members of the committee quite logically feel that Johnson has been guilty of duplicity. And they have decided to punish him by withholding a diplomatic tool he has misused in the past...
Refuge in Bravery. And what is the philosophical crux-or crotch-at which Jones stabs-or grabs-in the end? Sex, naturally. All men, don't you see, are really small boys playing at being men. They are all victims of penis envy. As little tykes, they worried that their organs would never grow as large as Daddy's. "I think maybe the whole world is all like that," Ron tells Lucky. "Russians, Chinese, Americans; Presidents, Prime Ministers, Heads of State; everybody. All of them trying so hard to grow...
...sense, Zeligs' analysis of Chambers -- the crux of his book -- is a solid contribution to an understanding of the McCarthy Era. In trials like Hiss's, there were inevitably three categories of participants: investigators, victims and informers. Chambers, for all his obvious peculiarities, had much in common with informers as a group: he was passionate, confused and fanciful, extreme both in his early devotion to Communism and in his later conversion to anti-Communism...