Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their hands were a score of new tools they had helped invent and perfect for just this purpose and moment. For at Munich-time (September 1938) Franklin Roosevelt told his administrators that never again must the U. S. be caught short, that plans must be drawn up to meet every predictable impact on the U. S. of a war abroad-measures to cushion the shock to the money-markets, to bring home U. S. nationals, to lay a firm foundation for the uncertainties of the future. Even proclamations were ready for the President's bold pen-stroke...
...said he. Winchell went to a telephone and followed instructions. Then he got into his car and let Stranger No. 2 take the wheel. At 10:15 Stranger No. 2 pulled up at Madison Square and got out. "Just wait here," he said. Winchell waited. A moment later a third stranger arrived, opened the door and got in. He took off his dark glasses and threw them into the street. Winchell stepped on the gas. He slowed his car up to the curb at Fifth Avenue, got out, escorted Stranger No. 3 to a black limousine, inside which, also...
...hrer Hitler struck as the bomb of the German-Russian Pact exploded, he would have begun the war with the advantage. Planted like a great mine before an entrenched position, prepared as stealthily as sappers burrow underground, it was in place, loaded, ready to go the moment the button was pressed. The great offensive in the War of Nerves mounted to its climax. The pressure on the Poles to give way, on Great Britain and France to give in, was at its height. Down through the Balkans, through Hungary, Rumania, a flank attack was launched. The button that Fuhrer Hitler...
...stunned shock passed, evidence accumulated that something had shaken Hitler's plan, disrupted Hitler's timetable. Up to the moment of the mine's explosion his moves have been deliberate, with a curious quality of being at once audacious and careful. Although he screamed on schedule at the French, British and Polish Ambassadors respectively, nevertheless uncertainty, postponements, reversals, entered Germany's history: a speech at Tannenberg was reannounced, then canceled; the Nurnberg Congress of Peace was reannounced, canceled. At the other end of the Axis Benito Mussolini seemed dawdling or lethargic compared with his hyperthyroid partner...
...with each moment the advantage of shock dwindled. Master of surprise, imaginative, daring, unscrupulous, Adolf Hitler surpassed in dealing in intangibles-in smashing a custom, blowing up his own and another's ideology-and as the week wore on it looked as if intangibles delayed him. Why had he stopped? He would have had the advantage of war if he had plunged to seize Danzig, the Polish Corridor, Upper Silesia and the other sections that he said were his, the moment the shock took effect. But he would also have had the guilt of launching...