Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes a good man to find the mot juste at a moment like that, but Nagy was up to it. He cracked: "I am pleased to see that the Communists find the food situation in Hungary good enough to use fresh eggs for political activities...
...came blackjacks and brass knuckles. Two Freedom Party men went down under the onslaught. A roar went up from the crowd; in a moment hundreds of people were bearing down on the Communists, brandishing chairs over their heads (see cut). One man went crashing through the glass to the ground, two floors below. Fury flamed up, then died out like a flash of powder. A couple of dozen casualties lay on the floor...
...Archbishop conceded that "at the moment, Parliament has no desire to exercise active control over the Church"; but until it begins making efforts to extricate itself from the Government's centuries-old embrace, he said, "the Church is drifting towards disaster...
...them that he is the husband of The Poet's wife (Jane Wyman). This offers a chance for a tedious kind of bedroom humor from which westerns used to be a refuge; at one point Mr. Morgan and Miss Wyman, snug under separate blankets, even play footie. Entertaining moment: Janis Paige, bulging a skintight costume and singing Cheyenne, a pretty nice oat-fed tune...
...rest as "Pop." By the twelfth day of the battle for Iwo Jima, only three men were left of his 32-man platoon. Then, from Iwo's craggy, ridge-locked plateau came the whee-ee-eet-whee-ee-eet of the moaning Minnies.* There was a moment of blackness, a scream, and then silence...