Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correctly address the Vice President of the U.S., a reporter wanted to know. Well, said Alben Barkley in a relaxed moment last week, at work some called him Mr. President (because he is president of the Senate). Some called him Mr. Vice President, which is correct according to Emily Post, but a mouthful, and some still called him Senator. "But my children call me 'Veep,' " he confided...
...moment, statism and nationalization of enterprises are favored. There is no doubt that the Church also admits nationalization within justified limits ... But to make this nationalization the normal rule of public economy would be to reverse the order of things. It is public authority's function to serve private rights, not to absorb them...
...then after the fa (that's really the incredible moment when one can say Charlie is great . . .), Charlie returns to the sol. Do you get it? No, you don't get it. A moment and you will see: sol, mi, fa, sol. . . there it is, in the groove, the true groove. Ah! that second...
This skein is thoroughly tangled from the moment Character Wylie comes down to lunch brooding about cancer and finds the botanist's wife, name of Yvonne, who is brooding over Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Wylie quickly recognizes her as "a nice bitch . . . with a father complex" and wins her sympathy by telling her what unkind reviews TIME gives his books. Yvonne tells Wylie all about her experience in the conservatory...
...seemed to him that he had never been filled with such peculiar feelings. Conscious that his roommate would want to know where he had been, he did his best to account for the experience. But the moment was too full--thought was impossible and Vag found the new sensation delightful indeed. He was aware that any attempted thought would break the spell immediately. This was the moment for which he was meant. Dropping deeper into the aesthetic whole, he toyed with one shoelace in an effort to prolong the experience, but all of a sudden, the experience was over...