Word: key
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, it began to look as if Harold Medina might soon be delivered from the trial, which had been a lot tougher on him than on the accused. Defense attorneys, having about run through their list of key witnesses, began reading the deposition of William Z. Foster, national chairman of the Communist Party, who was too ill to appear in person...
...Guff. His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir Oliver Franks, Knight Commander of the Bath, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, arrived at Washington. He did exceedingly well at one of the key posts of the postwar world. Anglo-U.S. cooperation is the cornerstone of the peace, of the effort to restore and extend prosperity and of the defense of the West against Communism. The roots of this cooperation strike deep into the histories of the two peoples. But friendship between nations, like marriage and moneymaking, requires attention to detail. As one U.S. State Department official expressed...
...speaking only with the Secretary of State, welcomes fruitful discussion on any level. He has lately achieved a remarkable triumph over his own personal reticence-that gravity and sobriety that had made many of his diplomatic colleagues find him chilly. He is on a first-name basis with such key officials as Dean Acheson, John Snyder, State's Assistant Secretary Jack Hickerson. With the more intellectual U.S. policymakers, e.g., Planner George Kennan, he spends long quiet evenings, far from the distracting clink of the cocktail glasses. Although he has deliberately thawed his manner-as part...
...which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings 30 feet high and reigns 30,000 years long, and geography made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter . . ." He had acclaimed English as the key "to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the wisest nations of the world have created and hoarded in the course of 90 generations...
...key to this achievement is simplicity and functional design. In three instances, for example, a stair well is made to do double duty by using it to connect two buildings, each using the same set of stairs. This not only cuts building costs, but also helps to unify the group...