Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church, had a solution for traffic tie-ups: "Stop for a moment of prayer when the light changes at an intersection instead of nervously honking [your] horn...
...Vargas-Communist candidate (for vice governor of São Paulo) was taking a shellacking, although the count is not yet official. The heat might be off for the moment, but Octávio Mangabeira only worked harder. "They used to say that Brazil couldn't get rid of a dictator," he said. "Then they said we couldn't write a workable constitution. Few thought Brazil would ever again have a free press. We have done all that. Now we are faced with the fourth great step along the road to democracy-a constitutional program for governing. Brazil...
...night, as the guest of Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, he dined on lobster, Brussels chicken and champagne, heard his host make a joke about his long tenure in office. Said Spaak, stealing a thought from La Rochefoucauld: "Man comes to power through his bad qualities. . . ." Spaak paused for a moment, eyes atwinkle, then went on-"and keeps power through his good ones." Mr. King smiled broadly; other guests guffawed...
...trip's most somber moment came when Mr. King visited the Canadian military cemetery at Bergen op Zoom.* It was dark when he got there, in a cavalcade of cars that slithered over slippery roads, but automobile headlights lit up the rows of 1,800 white crosses. The Prime Minister placed a wreath on the central monument. Then, head bared to a cold rain, he walked slowly along the rows, reading the names on the crosses. When he left for London to attend the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, Prime Minister King carried a memory of Canada's fighting...
...marauding bear by an exercise of intelligence and angry bravery, Kalyanu soared to the conclusion that bears were easy ; he failed to use his head on the next bear and got mauled. Mr. Bennett set his leg, healed him, and took him on as an orderly at a critical moment...