Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush and Dukakis both appeared on morning television programs while embarking on another dawn-to-dusk dash through key battleground states...
...Getting people out to vote is the key. Students can really make a difference," Rottenberg said, explaining that students are targeting Connecticut because the campaign expects a close race there...
Senior forward Sharon Hayes sparked the Crimson comeback, scoring 12 points over the 10-minute stretch. Hayes netted key back-to-back baskets to cut the margin to eight, and fired in the go-ahead bucket following a missed Crimson free throw...
...summer's environmental assaults, the author believes, have made an Ecotopian world a little more likely. "We have been messing about with the atmosphere in a truly Faustian way. That and the garbage on the shores have put people in a rotten humor." But what will really "be the key to the evolution of Ecotopia" will be a catastrophe at a nuclear plant. "One of these days a nuke is going to blow in the country, as surely as the sun goes up and comes down. It's practically bound to happen, and it will put a whole new complexion...
...Abwehr, Germany's secret service, had placed agents in key positions in London, it could not have chosen better than, to name just two, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his successor, Neville Chamberlain. Indeed, Nazi moles would not have dared to undermine Britain's defenses, diplomatic as well as military, as blatantly as did those two ambitious bumblers. After Hitler marched into the Rhineland in 1936, Baldwin rejected pressure to appoint Churchill as Minister of Defense with the compelling logic that "if I pick Winston, Hitler will be cross." In 1938, after meeting the Fuhrer, the deluded Chamberlain could...