Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room is okay at the Hanover Inn, and the first thing we decide to do is go over and see the boys at the Daily Dartmouth. This is a tricky moment, and I wonder when they grab us right off, how we going to let our friends at Harvard know we are prisoners, so they can come rescue...
...them. While taking all the necessary steps and above all maintaining a solid front, we should not, however, be hasty in abandoning our hope in the United Nations Organization. It may be that the Soviet Government and their Communist fifth columns in so many countries will, at some moment or other, quit the United Nations Organization. Then there would be what is called two worlds. And we should all be sorry to see that. But if one of these worlds is far more powerful than the other and is equally vigilant, and is also sincerely desirous of maintaining peace, there...
...Trail. From the moment González took office, he suspected his Communist allies. Acting on a tip from Buenos Aires, Government agents put a watch on Yugoslav Minister to Argentina, General Ljubomir Ilic, who came to represent Marshal Tito at González' inauguration. When Andres Cunja, a Yugoslav long resident in Chile, was named chief of the Tito diplomatic mission in Santiago, agents followed him, too. González kept quiet about what they reported...
...moment, Soviet Ambassador Dimitri Zhukov was still in Santiago, but many a Chilean thought he would not stay long. Two days after the Yugoslavs got the gate, his windows were peppered by machine-gun bullets from unknown attackers. Chile promptly expressed regret. The Soviet Union just as promptly called the shooting "a shocking infringement upon diplomatic immunity." González Videla was moving into the big time...
...first,, no one quite believed Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail when he said he was through (TIME, Oct. 13). Not that MacPhail, tearful and waving an empty beer bottle, had not made it plain: "That's it, goddamit, that's my retirement," he roared in the first moment of the Yankees' World Series victory. Even Dan Topping and Del Webb, Larry's wealthy co-partners, were disbelieving. "He's a sentimental fellow," said Topping. "I wouldn't put too much stock in what he's saying...