Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week at Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), a fringe of people stood behind a hemp rope. A soldier passed down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those in the ears...
...fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam on the blaze, snuffed it out. Grim and taciturn, the Kinley boys glanced up as the explosion took place, then plodded away without looking back...
...Ahmy...Anything but!...Ah love Hahvud men...they know so much, an' they look twice as much as they know...'n' when you go ridin' with 'em...well...they don't have to pull any 'it smacks of the Bowery' stuff foah protection if you park a moment to...eh...talk like they do down at the point...Ah should say not...most emphstically not...'n' their minds...Ah do adoah intelligent men...don't you?...'n' they she can mix a cocktall...Course they lose out on the uniform part...but Ah dum no, there's somethin' about...
...referring to the particular moment, she could have said nothing truer. Actresses come to Boston and find so many old friends. They stretched in a spiral queue from her door at the Hollis Theatre Monday night. One woman said: "Mrs. Fiske, my baby's just outside. I wonder if you'd like to come...
...Conversations. Into the Blue Ridge Mountains next day to do that surveying repaired President and Prime Minister. The world press waited. Not only had it no "details" to report but it could not even see the two talkers. Long, inspired screeds were written against the emotional background of the moment, establishing only two concrete facts: 1) Britain and the U. S. would agree to keep their fleets equal, the degree of potency probably being dependent upon what Britain considers her world-wide requirements. 2) Britain, with the U. S. concurring, would issue an invitation to France, Italy and Japan...