Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They stood motionless, stiff as ramrods," Carlini recalled. "Not one of them moved. I thought my last moment had come, when suddenly a score of Gardes Mobiles showed up. In a most determined manner, they forced a passage through the crowd, freed me and took me back to the City Hall. I was put in an ambulance, but couldn't get to the hospital until an hour later, because the crowd blocked the road and tried to overthrow the ambulance...
Glitter & Garter. Most Britons seemed content to call armistice on austerity for the moment at least. Some pickets at the Savoy Hotel obligingly effaced themselves when the bride turned up there for a reception. Despite royal permission that business suits be worn by gentlemen at the ceremony, wedding guests were swamping famed Moss Bros. with orders for rented cutaway coats and striped trousers at two guineas each, with a shining topper thrown in gratis. To everybody's relief, the King announced that the Household Cavalry would not wear khaki when escorting the bride to the Abbey, but would appear...
After one attempt, Zimmerman bucked off right tackle to score. A moment later he tossed a short pass to right-end MacVickar for the conversion...
...Zimmerman set up the lone scoring play by tossing a long pass to Bill MacVickar for a net gain of 30 yards. After the whistle had blown, MacVickar bobbled the ball for a moment and then lost it to a Deacon player. As Kirkland prepared to take over the ball, the referee called the play a completed pass, and it was first and goal to go for the Bunnies on the Deacon eight-yard line...
...seeing Zinaida and her mother off to the Crimea. Zinaida is piqued with Ivan because he will not go with her, but he is too poor to go and too stiff to tell her the reason. The train leaves; Ivan is left alone; he feels for a moment as if the event had happened before. In the next two months he gets three letters from Zinaida; then she stops writing. Soon he hears that she is going to be married...