Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth period, on a 26-yard pass from McKelvey to Taylor after Crimson quarterback Charlie Ravenel had fumbled. Still, Cornell had failed on both its extra point attempts, and the varsity's 16-12 margin seemed safe enough. However, the Crimson failed to make a first down at a crucial point, and gave up the ball on the Cornell 24 with 24 seconds to play. Then the roof fell...
...religion is formally removed from the College sphere, a crucial problem arises: namely, the moral education of the student. Among those most actively concerned with the implications of secularism at Harvard is President Pusey, who last June devoted his Baccalaureate address to the subject of moral philosophy at Harvard. Describing the history of this subject in American colleges and particularly at Harvard, he went on to discuss the position of moral concerns in the contemporary college...
...some crucial groups, such as the Ceylonese and French West Africans, were truly uncommitted. There were satellite representatives ready to engage in reasonable discussion, despite a careful prior selection of delegates which seemed to divide most of the European delegations into three groups--athletes, performers, and party members. And some acted as hatchet men for the Russians, the hard core East Germans for example, who were given control of the seminar programs far in advance, and the more impromptu "goon squad" tasks of removing unfriendly posters...
...politician with an eye on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had better keep the other eye cocked toward California, with its late (June 7), high-stakes (81 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, 70 to the Republican) presidential primaries and its 32 electoral votes. To no one is California more crucial than to Native Son Richard Nixon; if he cannot count on his home state, he will have a rough path to walk toward the White House. Just four months ago the Mervin Field poll, most widely circulated in the state, showed Nixon not only running well behind Massachusetts' John Kennedy...
...first fortnight of the campaign, Labor's keen, highly organized drive in the crucial "marginal" constituencies had reduced the Tories' once commanding public opinion poll lead to a slim 1½ points. At first, while Labor bored...