Word: crux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They also believe that their ranks will swell only while they are in the process of making revolution. The crux of their ideology is that the revolution can't wait...
...your article certain opponents of legalization expressed the belief that one intoxicant, in this case alcohol, was enough for our culture. But you also pointed out that youth has created its own culture or "counterculture." This is the crux of the issue. Adults are trying to force their culture down our throats, and with it their intoxicant, alcohol...
...measure both of the changes Cambridge is now experiencing and of the agony which those changes are causing is what has come to be called the City's "housing crisis." The crux of the problem is simple: Cambridge's housing stock is not large enough to accommodate all the people who want to live in the City. Generally more affluent than the older residents, the newcomers have bid up the price of housing...
...recent poll conducted for FORTUNE showed that about 40% of students enter college with the hope of bringing about change in the world. And that may be the crux of the problem. In hitting out at the university, the student rebels hit out at a society that they do not respect. Why don't they? Perhaps because the society does not sufficiently respect itself. It is a commonplace that today's young are raised permissively. More important, they are raised in an atmosphere in which conviction is too often asserted either apologetically or with an excessive, bullying vehemence that only...
...crux of the dispute, the student himself, has amoeboid into a polyglot of campus factions, quarreling, poaching, threatening, taking pro and con stances, some militant, some passive, others ready to ditch it all to crack the books once again...