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But several events crystallized in the late summer of 1974.
"He really helped me crystallize my thinking on a lot of issues."
It crystallized a feeling that was in all of us.
Here we are at the end of a campaign, and it's just crystallizing.
In the morning she would be gone and his own plans had to crystallize.
"He's really crystallized a lot of interest in the environment."
Watching the girl speak, it had finally crystallized in him.
The work as a whole crystallizes the course taken by American dance.
It crystallized in 1957 and there was no contact for almost 20 years.
"It crystallized in my mind we needed to do a good job on that," he said.
The war in Iraq, many say, has crystallized the value of political engagement.
"Before this we did not know what to crystallize," he said.
As usual he has crystallized this whole idea and put it very well.
It happened that I was present when the situation at last crystallized into conflict.
How much more of his father's wisdom would crystallize for him too late?
The real, crystallizing moment, though, came during the night of April 22, 1970.
They had been, staring since we walked in, and the reason crystallized.
"It crystallizes some of the things we need to do differently."
The debate has crystallized around a policy known here as natural regulation.
"Working with kids is the way I was able to crystallize all my ideas about writing," she said.
Still, this was the incident that crystallized her thinking, she said.
Now, I step out of my own nightmare and into the real world, he thought as the moment crystallized.
One play crystallized the evening, and maybe the Nets' season.
Coming suddenly into this hot environment might have crystallized the spring.
It is known as one of the most difficult compounds to crystallize.