Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shave & a Haircut. Harry Truman's moment of victory found him prepared. He had called in a barber, had a shave and a hair trim. He put on a fresh white shirt and a double-breasted blue suit. The news came to him in a shout which he heard through the closed door of his sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm...
...confident. As he has every election night of his career, he and his family dined at the home of Roger Straus, banker and longtime Dewey adviser. Then, flanked by his wife, his two sons, his mother (who had come from Owosso to be with her son at his great moment) and aides Elliott Bell and Paul Lockwood, he settled himself in his suite with a pad of yellow scratch paper on his lap. He watched a television set, listened to the radio, scanned bulletins from a news ticker. Press Secretary Jim Hagerty proclaimed confidently...
...records the unhappiness of the girls in the village on learning that their town's young musician is going off to study engineering: "That means you're not returning here . . . You'll work in a factory and forget our gay song." Everyone is silent for a moment, thinking. Then the young Komsomolets replies: "Don't be sad; wait till I finish the Institute. There's plenty for an engineer to do here too." This cheers everybody, somewhat...
...Lewis described him as "tall, slim, straight as a boy, though grey-haired. His face we thought ugly: I am not sure that the word 'monkey' has not been murmured in this context. But the moment he spoke it became, as was also said, like the face of an angel ... a spirit burning with intelligence and charity...
...what end? How does Nordic supremacy look when more than a quarter of a million of its devotees are hobbling and crawling, half-mad and half-dead, through an icy, foreign wasteland? How does the image of the divine Führer look to his worshipers in the moment when they themselves have "become bridges and carpets for his foot to trample upon...