Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the moment came. Surrounded by 30 yes-men of the United Mine Workers' executive council, Lewis grabbed a scraggly scrap of paper and a blue pencil. He wrote...
...second day there was a rough moment in the Piazza Colonna when police jeeps roared through a demonstrating crowd, swinging rubber truncheons on Communists and curious alike, and sending pedestrians frantically climbing up pillars. But there were no shots, no dead, no seriously injured. That evening, with the strike falling away under them, the Chamber of Labor bowed to the inevitable, called...
...what are the Italian Communists up to and how far are they ready to go? Actually the question did not have to be asked, because Togliatti attacked it himself. He spoke with the disciplined fluency of a man long practised in saying no more and no less than the moment calls for: "We Communists haven't changed our program of reform since we left the government. Only today we obviously cannot realize it by collaborating with the government, but by popular pressure. The news is false which the rightist press has been distributing about the date of a revolution...
Baldwin could be generous: in 1919 he gave $600,000, one-fifth of his personal fortune, to the state, to convince other rich men "that love of country is better than love of money." He could be generous, at the right moment, to political enemies: when his Tory followers demanded anti-trade-union legislation in 1925, he came out against it, with a Baldwinian peroration: "Give us peace in our time, O Lord...
...moment, Jewish guns and bombs were speaking more loudly than the Arabs'. Last week Haganah militiamen, in steel helmets and khaki uniforms, began systematic retaliation against Arabs. In communal fights, Palestine's death toll swelled...