Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious anticlimax. Republicans had waited for years for the great day when the country would come to its senses and turn the Democrats out. The authors of the New Deal, in turn, had shuddered in anticipation of the awful moment when the G.O.P. would come to power, reduce their works to ashes, and set the laboring man to building country clubs on non-union wages...
...Harry Truman, was a little disappointed by the way the Vinson business had turned out (TIME, Oct. 18), and had decided to try something else. So White House advisers, including the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, cooked up another idea to spring at a strategic moment in the political campaign...
...Hollywood, Mickey Mouse, whose birthdays are reckoned from the moment of his conception (in Walt Disney's mind in a drawing room on a westbound train) rather than from his first public appearance (in Steamboat Willie, 1928), turned 21. Father Walt and a few oldtimers honored their hardworking star (who has appeared in more pictures than any other actor in Hollywood*) with a quiet, off-the-lot anniversary dinner...
...this afternoon when you cheer the blend of fife and tuba that is "Wintergreen," look for a moment at the man with the Dewey button and the tear in his eye and the man with the Truman button and the tear in his eye. These men understand. They know whose absence it is that makes the heart grow heavier this autumn. And not all the brass in Bubduk can blow loud enough to make up the loss of John P. Wintergreen...
...demise of Eliot has left the House league a wide open race, although at the moment undefeated Kirkland has become the new favorite. Winthrop and Lowell, however, are also leading contenders...