Word: salient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern monk is a comparatively social animal. This was the salient feature of a talk delivered last night by Father Superior Granville M. Williams to a large crowd at the First Congregational Church in Cambridge...
...would seem to the poor unacquainted reader of the CRIMSON that the various pseudo-politicos concerned with the Fisher-HYRC case have so involved themselves in charges and counter-charges that the salient point of importance in the affair has become obscured. The members of this University who voted for Mr. Fisher and who vote for other campaigners expect themselves to be represented by those who seek their vote. If Mr. Fisher and the members of the YRC planning committee had been less concerned with their politics, whatever politics 19-year-old sophomores can be sure of in their...
...copies were an indictment based specifically on the two questions and the two answers given by Hiss late that afternoon. Behind the two questions lay weeks of effort to get at the salient question: Who was lying when Chambers stated and Hiss denied that Hiss had been a spy in the service of the Soviet...
...time his "Victory Special" rolled into California, Tom Dewey had observed one salient fact. At every whistle-stop and cattle crossing, the line that invariably drew loud applause was an attack on Communists in the Government, along with the remark: "I suggest you elect an administration that simply won't appoint them in the first place...
...forces helped stem the last great German offensive at Cháteau-Thierry. Three months later-under orders not to dig holes-they took the offensive at Saint-Mihiel, won back a salient the Germans had held since 1914. Fourteen days after that, the U.S. First Army attacked on the Meuse-Argonne line, broke through the enemy trench systems, routed their way through the weary defenders. Pershing advocated driving on to Berlin. But his wish was thwarted by the Armistice...