Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were fewer interruptions for laughter now, and a telephone ring at that moment suggested my time was up. But I held firm. When Miss Cam returned from the call, I hurriedly mentioned her copies of Henry Adams, one of her predecessors in medieval history. What did she think of his pot shots at Harvard? "Oh, I've really not been here long enough to say. He was an extraordinarily clever man, though." Well--what about hobbies? The Last Resort. "I like walking and cycling; I do wish I had brought over my bicycle. And I also do some water...
...Moment of Silence. At first no hint of the new disclosure leaked out. But early last week, Robert E. Stripling, chief investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, got an inkling of what had happened...
...rounded up Congressman Nixon, drove to Maryland, found Chambers in the cowbarn at his farm, finishing the evening milking. They bluntly accused him of withholding evidence from the congressional committee. After a long moment of silence Chambers admitted that they were right. Did he have more information? He would...
...want complete silence throughout the cathedral at this moment when persons are being shown how to give their lives to God . . . It is simple to receive Christ . . . Will you open the door?" (For some 30 seconds Evangelist Green prays silently, his head in his hands...
Many newsmen agree with him. "For the moment," said one bureau chief last week, 'Tearson is the one investigatory journalist in Washington, and we could use more like him. The rest are all pundits and deadpan reporters. If he laid off those predictions, he'd be a better journalist-and, I suppose, a poorer-paid one." There is no doubt that Pearson has had a healthy effect on Washington. When George C. Marshall was chief of staff, a general, worried over Army leaks to Pearson, went to the chief and urged that Pearson be bottled up by strict...