Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman's surprise and dismay, Marshall flatly opposed it. The foreign ministers of the U.S., Britain and France had just finished eight weeks of fruitless talks with Stalin and Molotov. Marshall, at that very moment, was doing his best to reassure Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman of the consistency of U.S. diplomacy. The U.S., for example, had said it would not negotiate with Russia as long as she maintained the Berlin blockade. An announcement such as Mr. Truman planned would certainly shake British and French confidence in the U.S. The move would also look...
When Jessup finished, there was a moment of silence in the packed hall. An aide whispered to Vishinsky; he did not move. In his self-imposed silence, he gave a striking impression of being a culprit at the bar. Then he strode out. To reporters who tried to speak to him, he snarled: "None of you newspapermen is of good faith...
When Charles de Gaulle heard of the Herriot-Thorez discussions, he quickly made his position clear: "If the separatists [the R.P.F. name for Communists] were to enter what is conventionally known as the government of France, from that moment legitimacy would be ended . . . If the wretches were to invite into the government the men who do not play the game of France, then who would dare to say that we would still be in a state of legality...
...Imagine yourself standing on some headland in a dark night. At the foot of the headland is a lighthouse or beacon, not casting rays on every side, but throwing one bar of light through the darkness . . . Take any moment of history and you find light piercing unillumined darkness-now with reference to one phase of the purpose of God, now another. The company of those who stand in the beam of the light by which the path of true progress for that time is discerned is always small. Remember Wilberforce and the early Abolitionists; remember the twelve Apostles...
Perhaps the most satisfying moment the office had last year came when a woman walked in with a postal card. It was from the concentration camp in Poland where her husband was interned and it was written in Polish. She spoke only French. A quick look through the files and Holt phoned a student language expert, who translated it from Polish to English. A second man was called to put it into French...