Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed this summary with an elequent defense of human rights, saying that. "The soul of man thus held in france or forsen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life...
...basketball fans thought they knew one thing for a fact: the two best teams in the country were Kentucky and St. Louis. Their meeting in the finals of the National Invitation Tournament in Madison Square Garden was to be the big climax of the season. Last week the big moment came, but neither Kentucky nor St. Louis was there to meet it. In the biggest double upset of the season they had been knocked out of the championship class...
Tribune Books Editor Irita Van Doren said her sampling was broader than S.R.L. indicated. Said she: "If anybody could suggest any real way to get around weaknesses in the bestseller lists, I would be glad to do it." For the moment, the Times and the Tribune planned no changes...
...ordinary. The song is pretty enough--Bing Crosby and others will probably let us hear a great deal of it during the next few months--but it seems to exist chiefly because of its prettiness. The romance between Cable and Liat, which is handled quite remarkably up to the moment Cable begins to sing, loses a lot of its intensity by being interrupted for such a number. Perhaps the fault is more the singer's than the song's; William Tabbert does little more than put the right words onto the right notes. Or perhaps any song would be weak...
...their crime nor heal the ulcers in their hearts; for, says Author Green, the consequences of a crime of weakness are as terrible as those of a crime of strength. A fire in Pelancey's shop destroys them: "They spoke to each other, incoherently . . . until the very last moment of life, holding firmly to each other as they lay there beneath the beams...