Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incredibly enough, at week's end, the Gimo's confidence seemed to be working -at least for the moment. The "ten days to three weeks" were up, and the Communists were not yet in Nanking. They had been fought to a standoff in their frontal assault at Suchow and were now shifting for another try, apparently by encirclement, from the south...
...century of struggle with the Japanese. Formally, China became one of the "Big Five." When the war ended, China drew a long breath and turned to reconstruction. The spearhead of Chiang's planned reconstruction of China was Manchuria, with its coal and iron and factories. At the last moment, it was snatched from China's hand...
...spite of an embarrassing moment when members of the Orchestra misunderstood their cues, obliging Mr. Holmes to stop the Chorus and begin the section again, both of these groups performed creditably. Particularly well done was "All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray," a chorus demanding much from singers and players alike. Last night it was one of the most impressive spots in the entire concert...
...From the moment Barry Fitzgerald enlists an unemployed Hollywood stunt man to impersonate the crazy and deceased scion of the Wealthy Tatlock family, "Miss Tatlock's Millions" rockets its imaginative and hugely funny way through acres of slapstick to a wet and happy ending in the Hawaiian breakers...
...Pius IX defined as dogma the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary-the belief that Mary was preserved from all sin from the moment her soul was created and infused into her body. But his infallibility had not at that time been officially recognized as dogma...