Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France since De Gaulle has taken over -"a sense of purpose.'' And about De Gaulle, the President confided to a friend: "I know he's a stubborn man, but as long as he's stubborn on our side, everything's all right." On the crucial summit issue, Charles de Gaulle was all of that. Said the final U.S.-French communique: "A summit conference, useful in principle, should take place only when there is some possibility of definite accomplishment...
Silence on the Right. Most important side effects of all came in Paris. On the crucial question of Algeria, which occupied more than one-third of Ike's talks with De Gaulle, the French President gave his outline of a new plan to settle the rebellion. Leaks had it that De Gaulle would propose elections for a new Algerian assembly and executive with whom negotiations on Algeria's political future would be conducted. The plan would not require a rebel cease-fire as a precondition to a settlement, leaving this open in the hope that public opinion...
...launched. Rigid arms like paddle wheels, whirling through the sunlight of empty space, were its most spectacular feature, designed to test the possibility of capturing enough energy from the sun to send messages across millions of miles (TIME, April 27). Such a durable source of energy is crucial to proposed space probes to Venus or farther planets, for there is little point in sending out space probes unless their transmitters can send information back to earth...
...week's accumulation of events was the emergence of the Big Two as a conscious entity. To Nixon, as to previous U.S. visitors, Khrushchev voiced the opinion that world peace could be guaranteed if only the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could get together. But Khrushchev's more crucial decision to give Nixon a chance to shine in Russia was a conscious effort to persuade the U.S. to bypass NATO, the Big Four and the U.N., in favor of direct dealings with Moscow. Khrushchev had been almost indifferent-as well as rude-to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
...error in question is a matter of just two words, but two important and crucial ones. Lady Macbeth is trying to overcome Macbeth's reluctance and to bolster his courage to murder Duncan. He protests, "If we should fail--," and she retorts with "We fail"--two words with at least three possible interpretations (each with more than one inflection): (1) "We fail?"; (2) "We fail!"; and (3) "We fail." Mrs. Siddons, history's most celebrated portrayer of the role, finally settled on the third; and Miss McKenna does the same. But this is the most inadmissiable solution. Lady Macbeth must...