Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem then was what to do with the information. Disclosure might give away the workings of the U.S. atomic detection network; it might be better if the Russians did not know the U.S. knew. But no one wanted to let the Russians make a triumphant announcement at a moment of their own choosing, when the news might become a massive propaganda coup. President Truman decided to announce the news immediately...
...Right-hander Kiner picked a fat curve and put his 195 Ibs. into an easy, carefully grooved swing. The ball cleared the left-field fence for home run No. 51. Three innings later, he put No. 52 in the same place. To Pittsburghers, who head for the exits the moment Kiner has taken his last turn at bat, even Babe Ruth's record mark of 60 (in 1927) still seemed within Kiner's reach...
...most memorable moment was one that few listeners were aware of. In the last act, with Mimi a-dying, Segurola (known mainly to a later generation as Deanna Durbin's teacher) suddenly turned to Caruso and whispered hoarsely that he could not manage his final aria, the "Coat Song." Grated the basso: "I've lost my voice...
...This is the work of [a] magician!" cries the madman, and in that moment, almost before Cervantes appears to know it, Don Quixote's comical quest becomes also the serious search for what is real behind the appearances of this world. The search leads him, at the end of Part One, to a cage in which, like a wild animal, he is shipped home...
...with the restoration of other forms of students exchange and the obstacles blocking passage between Eastern, and Western Europe, the interchange of information among the Europeans has had to take a back seat for the moment...