Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excitement when it was announced that Secretary of Defense James Forrestal would arrive. The day before, in Washington, Forrestal had announced that he was sending 1,250 marines from Guam to Tsingtao to reinforce 4,850 marines already in China and help in the evacuation of Americans. For the moment it looked as if something might be cooking on U.S. policy in the Far East...
...Every Night." Shortly after we began eating, an orderly called General Li to the phone. He talked for a moment in a low voice and returned to the table. In the candlelight the lines on his youthful face-he is 44 - had sagged. He stared at his rice bowl, then explained quietly that he had just had word of a radio message from his friend General Huang. "The trap is closing," said Li. "He must have help soon. We must reach him in two days...
...same moment another royal romance went aground-that of Farouk's sister and Farida's childhood playmate, 27-year-old Princess Fawzia with the Shah of Persia. Since the day in 1939 when she was palmed off on an amiable, feckless young prince, whom she had never met, to cement relations between his country and hers, blue-eyed Fawzia's marriage had traveled much the same rocky road as her brother...
...anywhere from $35 to $60. Williams, like Dartmouth, is a skiing college: "You'll eat in ski pants, dance in ski pants, and if you ever get to bed, you might just as well sleep in ski pants." Amherst parties "are definitely of the beery, spur-of-the-moment variety"; a Holyoke girl once complained that "all they ask you for is to sing tenor in some quartet." Princeton parties are held "in rooms that seem no larger than a small station wagon." And a Yale football weekend is "one continuous cocktail party, punctuated by an occasional dance...
...Open and the P.G.A.). His average of 69.31 strokes for 76 rounds makes him the likely winner of the Vardon Trophy. He is also the P.G.A.'s top moneymaker, with $32,112 in official prizes. Last week, the P.G.A. announced that radio and press writers, with hardly a moment's hesitation, had voted Hogan "golfer-of-the-year...