Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this crucial, life-and-death time for the church, when the purification process is so desperately needed, there bursts upon the world from the prison of Poland a powerful, electrifying personality, a man who is all heart, soul, guts and steely courage, John Paul...
...camp after a private Democratic poll showed him easily beating Carter in Illinois. George Dunne, the Cook County party chairman, also had talks with Byrne and said that Carter would get little help from local leaders. Byrne's switch will make it much tougher for Carter in the crucial Illinois primary March 18. Said Kennedy, who had phoned Byrne several times last week: ''I'm delighted...
...Sullivan, the finances of the city are of vital importance. "It is crucial to have the revenue which the real estate tax brings in," he says. "With rent control we just don't get sufficient income to keep taxes down...
Retaining that edge is the traditional job of the CCA, which currently controls four seats. Their margin on the crucial council votes has come only at the behest of independent Alfred E. Vellucci. And this year, as every year, the CCA is battling to gain a fifth seat. "We could end up with five, or we could go down to three," one CCA candidate said with a shudder last week...
There were quarterback sacks and fumbles on crucial plays, penalties to stall Harvard drives, and a big roughing the kicker penalty to pull the Tigers out of a hole at their own eight on a fourth and 15 to close the first quarter...