Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside of actual military intervention by U.S. forces in China, there was probably nothing the nation could do for the moment but wait and hope. Said the Washington official: "I have every sympathy for China, and God knows I'd like to see Communism rooted off the face of the earth. But what can we do at an hour like this? We couldn't even get anything started before this battle will be brought to a melancholy or a successful conclusion...
Churchill, in spite of honest differences with Ike, always backed him up. During the campaign in France, says Ike, "Prime Minister Churchill and Field Marshal Brooke took occasion to inform me that they also were prepared, at any moment I expressed dissatisfaction with any of my principal British subordinates, to replace him instantly." This unity of command, says Eisenhower, was one of the great achievements...
...Time, Gentlemen." From time to time a flurry of speculation ran through the watchers like autumn leaves in a gust. On Friday night there was a moment of letdown when Princess Elizabeth herself stepped out of the palace door and drove off with her husband in his Austin sedan. (They had a date to dine with Philip's cousin, Lady Brabourne, and practical Elizabeth saw no reason for breaking it.) By Sunday night 4,000 or more people in slouch hats, toppers, evening clothes, shawls and workmen's denim were clustered about the huge Victoria Memorial...
...last press conference was like many that had gone before: there was little news. When the time came for questions and a newsman asked about his "golden moment" in Canadian public life, sober-sided Mackenzie King could not think of an answer. Said he: "I am proudest . . . of keeping this nation united." On questions about the new cabinet and the next election, King was his artful self in saying nothing. "I have been advised to avoid controversial issues," he said...
Galiffa faded to pass. One Army man got loose for an instant on the goal line, and Galiffa fired straight & true, for a touchdown. It may well have been football's most dramatic moment of 1948. Final score: Army 26, Penn...