Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pitfalls of Drink. In Roslyn, N.Y., a stranger in a bar handed Otto Steih Jr. one end of a leash, excused himself for a moment. Still waiting: Otto and the raccoon...
...goes to the station to meet her father. As Bill Green steps down from his Pullman they gather round to greet him. The exchange of conversation is always the same. Green says: "It was awfully nice of you fellows to come down to meet me." There is a moment of shuffling and a spokesman for the bums and loafers says something about times being hard, Billy. Green acts surprised and helps out with dollar bills. Everyone goes away happy...
...Dodgers won the next one. Then in the ninth inning of the fourth game came the big moment. There were two men out, and two men on. The Dodgers were trailing 2-1. On the mound was the Yankees' big Bill Bevens, who was just a pitch or so from baseball immortality: in sight of the first no-hitter in World Series history...
From that moment, the improbable became the possible: the unpredictable Dodgers had a chance. Anything could happen: the Dodgers even tried to make the Lavagetto lightning strike twice. The Dodgers were in a fix again next day. Joe DiMaggio had slammed his second homer of the Series into the upper tier of the center-field stands, and the Yanks were leading. With two out in the ninth inning, the Dodgers had the tying run on second base. Pinch-Hitter Cookie Lavagetto stepped up to the plate-and struck out. Now the Yankees were in the lead, three games...
...There has appeared on the world scene [a] Shakespearean Shylock, revengeful, unmerciful, insatiable in his greed. . . . There never was a Marshall Plan but there was a Shylock Plan. . . . From the moment of his speech, dollars and only dollars have served as the gigantic bait ... for ... the western section of Europe...