Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luck was on my side, for at that moment up came a man whom I recognized as Barbi, the local Communist leader. He also joined in the conversation. Then, seeing me standing near there, he eyed me suspiciously. I stood there with a blank look, and then after a few moments glanced at my watch as if expecting someone. I muttered a few English cuss words such as all Italians have learned. They took it for granted I couldn't understand Italian and continued their talk. Barbi said: 'The way Councilor Gallo went on about red being blood...
...plane loaded with 22 reporters, photographers, radio and newsreel men. In the press plane was one woman: slight, sharp-tongued, fiftyish May Craig, a grandmother and longtime correspondent for Maine's Gannett newspaper chain. Reporter Craig was one of Harry Truman's few worries of the moment...
...convention hall's one real moment of excitement followed the spontaneous burst of cheering with which General Dwight D. Eisenhower was hailed. But when Kansas delegates thronged forward in an attempt to set off an Eisenhower-for-President boom, National Commander Paul Griffith waved them back. The ovation ended after only 30 seconds, and with it the theory that the convention would play a major part in presidential politics. (Presidential Aspirant Harold Stassen, a delegate to the convention, got a thunderous ovation when he spoke in behalf of the "Marshall approach...
...bullfighters, gathered in rings throughout Spain, mourned Manolete with the formal pomp which he loved, as a good bullfighter and a good Spaniard must. In Mexico City they remembered that when word of his death came, lightning had been flashing in the darkened sky. At that moment, the crack of balls and shouted bets in the pelota courts had died away, and the voice over the loudspeaker had intoned, "Se murió el mejor" (the best is dead...
...hurried costume fittings, finished the preparations with a steak dinner. That night she gave a performance that made Montrealers forget the heat. Wrote the Montreal Gazette's Critic Thomas Archer: "Miss Resnik did a magnificent piece of work, considering that she had to substitute at the last moment. But an honest and accomplished artist can do just that...