Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wire-service reporters raced out of the courtroom for the telephones, the defendants and their lawyers sat stunned for a moment. Then the lawyers hopped to their feet in an attempt to head off the testimony of the unperturbed man in the witness chair...
...conquered by the Mongols . . . The chivalry and armed power of Europe was completely destroyed by the Asiatic hordes' mounted archers. It seemed that nothing could avert the doom of the famous continent from which modern civilization and culture have spread throughout the world. But at the critical moment, something happened-the great Khan died . . . The Mongol armies and their leaders trooped back on their ponies across the 7,000 miles which separated them from their capital, in order to choose a successor. They never returned-till...
Once it really starts moving, The Traitor is a tense piece of theater, paced and sharpened in Jed Harris' best Broadway manner. It is a vivid spy melodrama in which everything seems a little more ominous for being so much of the moment. It refurbishes old situations with such new gadgets as Geiger counters; it endows standard roles with new wrinkles. The Russian spy (suavely played by John Wengraf) is a cynical worldling whose motive is money, not Marx; the chief intelligence officer (winningly played by Lee Tracy) is a humorously rueful fellow who has a horror of muffing...
...short space of time will send me to that bourne from which none return . . ." To most of his seamen he was the kindest, gentlest hero imaginable; to his Sea Lords he was exasperatingly 'vindictive, suspicious and intolerant. He was as alarmingly unstable as a prima donna-until the moment he marched to the center of the stage and put on a priceless performance. The Nelson touch, says Admiral James, consisted of more than unorthodox audacities. Such naval details as supply, provision for his men, and overall shipshapeness were problems that he solved meticulously and with relish for every last...
...Plymouth, New Zealand, a priest at St. Joseph's Church advised his congregation to "put your notes in the plate and keep your silver to back Earldale [at 10 to 1] in the last race tomorrow," but when the horse won, the clergyman admitted that at the last moment he had switched...