Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny is commander in chief -theoretically-of West Europe's land forces, and the man to whom the most crucial task would fall if the Russians attacked tomorrow. He is also the most striking member of a strange military organism known as Uniforce, which for nine months has quietly tried to plan the defense of Western Europe. The progress & problems of Uniforce throw a light on the issue before the U.S. Congress...
There were several immediate questions to face: one was a British request for a greater exchange of classified atomic information with Great Britain and Canada. Another was that the British soon might demand a larger share of the crucial Belgian Congo uranium production, which is now shipped mostly to the U.S. The U.S. would probably have to reach some sort of atomic accord with Britain...
...During these last few days, when our beloved and only child married the girl he loves [Paul Robeson Jr., who went to school in Russia, married a white girl], I have taken the crucial beating at the hands of my fellow countrymen. Some of them collected in the street to boo my children, whom they did not even know. The natural thing for people to do when they see a newly married pair is to smile indulgently, vaguely wish them well. These people were wishing my children evil...
Sheean came to a crucial religious question, whether certainty of God preceded renunciation of the world. Gandhi answered at once, "No, the renunciation precedes the certainty." Then he quoted to Sheean the first verse of the Isha Upanishad: "The whole world is the garment of the Lord. Renounce it, then, and receive it back as the gift...
...through university presidents, must be prepared to show the greatest integrity and personal courage to protect the freedom of their teachers. President James Phinney Baxter of Williams is exemplary among current administrators: he has withstood extreme alumni pressure in protecting a teacher's right at the height of a crucial drive for endowment--the weakest spot of a private school today...