Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...false," cried Father Lombardi in rebuttal. "We advocate courageous social reforms, division of property, support of the needy . . . My greatest hope at this moment, Mr. Spano, is that your soul may be saved. For this I would gladly give my life though I too am only an unworthy sinner." As he finished, he clasped Spano's hand and warmly embraced...
...dramatic moment. "The palette gleamed with beads of colour; fair and white rose the canvas; the empty brush hung poised, heavy with destiny, irresolute in the air . . ." Winston Churchill had just sat down, at 43, to paint his first oil. In a jolly essay entitled "Painting as a Pastime" and published in London last week, the great statesman described where his hobby had led him. Actually the essay had first appeared in 1932 as two chapters in a little-read book called Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures; but Churchill had then been in eclipse-the same kind of eclipse...
Last week, in the opulent gloom of movie theaters in Manhattan and Chicago, the lovely woman screamed & screamed. For a moment, the scene looked exactly like the old-fashioned thrill shot that moviemakers call a "cliff-hanger." But what moviegoers were actually getting was a breathtaking glimpse of an abyss in the infinite mountains of the mind...
Jacobs escaped a volley of vicious kicks only by getting a parking meter between himself and the youth. Patrolman Lawrence Brutti made the arrest a moment later...
...Fine, an assistant professor of Music here, took over from Koussevitsky to conduct his work. "Agile" and "clever" are the adjectives most frequently used to describe his pieces, but this has moments of seriousness as well. The melodies are gay and keep breaking through an orchestral background which flashes with color. I enjoyed each moment but felt an absence of overall unity...