Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they rendezvoused in "a shadowy corridor"). To each man Crommelin handed over a confidential letter to Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews from Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, commander of the Pacific's First Task Fleet. Crommelin insisted only that his own identity be kept secret for the moment: he wanted nothing to detract from the impact of the letter itself...
...Mize (sold to the Yankees last August) returned to haunt the National League. At bat as a pinch hitter with two out and the bases loaded, he connected with his second pinch hit of the Series, a line drive to the right-field fence. When Jerry Coleman singled a moment later, the Yankees...
...over, there were language classes on some of the boats to brush up fading high school French and German; on the trip back, one boat's students were teaching English--to 200 DP's headed for Canada. Meetings and conferences sprang up in abundance. The moment one found a quiet corner, it would turn out that some sort of meeting was about to begin there, on anything from Scandinavian socialism to the German Baroque...
...moment American students were deposited on the shores of the Old World, they began to come scropper over strange foreign customs and to get themselves entangled in other countries' red tape. They ordered the wrong things off the menu, got the wrong directions for the wrong places, overstrained their meager vocabularies, and waved their hands in despair. Occasionally the misunderstandings could lead to ferocious consequences, for instance if you didn't know that when an Italian says "Basta" to you, he means "enough," and not what you thought he meant...
...station put the finishing touches on its first big television studio last summer and has just completed its second, an auditorium-type affair which can also be used for radio. At the moment, however, all WBZ's "live" television is shot in the first studio, a two-story room equipped with the newest in lighting. Compensating for the heat produced by floods, spots and a dozen banks of base lighting, ceiling air units pump in 8200 cubic feet of air per minute, thus completely changing the air every 11 minutes...