Word: fleetingness
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But history would probably weigh other factors. Lucius Clay had dominated the German scene by his firmness and boldness, and emerged as the rock-solid symbol of Western determination. Though his first fleeting reaction to the Berlin blockade was an impulse to ram through with an armored convoy, he had...
E and ACTH. The results were dramatic but, like the results of earlier work, they were fleeting. Fifteen patients, some unable to walk, showed great improvement soon after injections of large doses of Compound E (as much as 100 milligrams a day). The first patient was a woman who was...
The U.S. Secretary of State turned his head slowly from one interrogator to another, his slightly bulging, frosty eyes looking down an impressive, beaklike nose. His expression hardly changed, except to break occasionally into a fleeting wry smile. He handled the press conference delicately, parrying questions, articulating carefully in his...
Stassen spoke derisively of Harry Truman's "scolding, threatening, complaining speeches." The President, he said, had "dishonored labor with an extreme demagogic appeal." He called him a sower of "the seeds of disunity for the sake of fleeting political advantage."
"Sweet Sixteen." The delegates were rewarded with a fleeting glimpse of Wallace, who appeared briefly at Convention Hall, then was rushed back to his hotel. The climax came the next night at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics. Some 30,000 people, who paid 65? to $2.60 for seats...