Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment I was alone I broke out into streams of perspiration," he wrote. "Then for the first time I realized that I had passed the most difficult hour of my life...
There was one moment at the conference when the Archbishop's face became wistful. That was when Dr. Erich Stange of Cassel-Wilhelmshohe, Germany, suggested what he called "an audacious thought," namely, to have a central seat of learning for the Lutherans of the world...
...ever heard during the campaign any talk about enforcing the laws against murder or theft or robbery? . . . In an unguarded moment I allowed myself to be persuaded to insert [in the Prohibition investigation authorization] the parenthetical words 'together with the enforcement of other laws.' There was no purpose on earth to make other laws the feature. . . . But now what has happened? The parenthesis has been made the main thesis. Prohibition enforcement has been submerged...
...time was ten minutes to six. The ceremony had been scheduled to take place an hour earlier. Until the last moment anxious delegates pawed over the documents making minute emendations? changing commas to semi-colons, changing ands to buts...
...shouted maledictions at the government, protested at the food and living conditions in Rumania's state lazaretto at Largeana, from which they had escaped. Gingerly, Rumanian gendarmes captured the gesticulating lepers. In a nearby pharmacy terrified government clerks tore off their clothes, gargled. scrubbed themselves with disinfectants. A moment later still other government clerks rushed in, shouting for chloride, plucking at their garments. A third leper had appeared at the Ministry of Health equally incensed at the food served in Rumania's lazaretto...