Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present it seems that the moment for plain speaking has arrived, and is in fact overdue, and the soldiers appear to think the same. The southern part of the Republic is starving and isolated without war material. It is all over now, and those who have most admired the courage and pride of the Republic must hope only that the survivors will obtain mercy from the fascists...
Clinging to this unseen, vertical barrier, they might have been little animals-silver mosquitoes on a screen, countless miniature human beings, struggling to keep from falling and at the same moment stare at a great wonder, clutching at the bare face of a cliff to find support where there was not a root or weed to grasp. There was the momentary retention of position in the sphere of the light, then the same abrupt relaxation of their unaccountable grip and the rapid descent as in the lives of men he had read about, like Shelley, perhaps, or Chatterton...
Down at the boathouse veteran Bert Haines was asked, "Does this indoor rowing do you any good?" "You mean to make a crew in the spring?" countered Haines, adding a moment later, "Yes . . . It's the only way to make the crew...
Early one morning last week a sleepy-eyed fish porter trudged through the grimy streets of Manchester. Suddenly a terrific explosion in the mains beneath the street hurled his body into the air. He was killed and his falling body seriously injured a passing postman. Almost at the same moment, Bam! another blast ripped open a street half a mile away. Bam! a third blew up the pavement a few hundred yards further on. Terror-stricken early risers, certain they were being bombed from the air, grabbed gas masks issued during the CzechoSlovak Crisis and rushed into the streets...
...stirring moment for many an old German Army officer comes on January 27, when, standing at rigid attention, he drinks a birthday toast to his old Warlord and ex-Kaiser. Last week Adolf Hitler brushed this sentimentality aside, forbade his officers to toast the old Kaiser, 80 this week, ordered them to leave all restaurants and other public places where such gestures were made. Gracious exception was made for officers who belong to the Hohenzollern family. They may drink to the health of their abdicated kinsman at Doom...