Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...futile effort. Sensing the moment, old Tom Connally ripped into Taft's logic as the kind of "haggling which takes place in a secondhand clothing store...
...praised the new rent law though they had privately complained to the President against it. The C.I.O., to confound the confusion, called the rent law "counter to the wishes of the people as expressed by President Truman . . ." The C.I.O. apparently hadn't got the word yet; at the moment the White House found even half a loaf nourishing...
...case, painful. They had arranged to pick Rivera up at his home for dinner and, while waiting for him outside in the car, Eliot doubled up with a sharp, agonizing attack of what could only be dysentery. When Rivera came out to meet them, he regarded Eliot for a moment and said, simply: "There is a cure for this...
...that moment Sam was just a pensioned pumper driver from the Bayonne (N.J.) fire department, and Sam's bar & grill was like any neighborhood joint around St. Mark's Place on the Lower East Side. Its only distinctive touch was Sam's cousin, "Bottle Sam" Hock, who amused the trade by whacking tunes out of whisky bottles with a suds-scraper. But the customers got a joyful jolt when Sam opened up one morning last week...
Deeper Knowledge. "In a moment of such alarm," said Leroux to his sergeant, "the experienced police officer allows himself the luxury of noticing more important things, which may deepen his knowledge of the country. For instance," and Leroux's arm swung this way & that, pointing, "the little men who are not the little husbands coming quickly from the little houses, and that blonde number from the bar hurrying from behind the hedge. But quick! We have practically not a moment to lose...