Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the most ardent Democrats clucked despondently over the latest presidential bobble. At his press conference, the President was asked if he knew of any domestic crisis at the moment. Without batting an eye, the man who had demanded an emergency recall of Congress only seven weeks ago, on the grounds of a serious domestic crisis, replied that he had not been told...
...From the moment (11:33 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 4) when Wilhelmina dotted the second i of her bold signature at the solemn abdication ceremony in Amsterdam's Royal Palace, The Netherlands' Queen was her auburn-haired, 39-year-old daughter Juliana. By her own choice, Wilhelmina had become merely a dowager Princess of The Netherlands...
...what love can do towards regenerating these two kids-who-never-had-much-of-a-break-in-the-world. But the real, soggy lump in the throat during all the love scenes is that you know, and Dane knows, that Geraldine may cork off at any moment; and that Geraldine doesn't know it at all. The makers of this movie, not caring how morbidly sentimental they got, obviously hope that it will tear your heart...
...Call Lanny Budd is assigned by Roosevelt to bone up on rockets and jets. This is to prepare him for a visit to Germany to quiz a German scientist (anti-Nazi) on German progress in developing the rocket bomb. Thereafter the episodes are what might be expected: the high moment of almost every Lanny Budd novel is an escape from the Gestapo, or the rescue of someone from a Fascist torture chamber...
Timing Is Everything. "Now here comes the moment," writes Potter in his best Punch style, "on which not only this match, but so much of the future of British sport was to turn. Score: forty-love. Smith at 51 [see cut] is about to cross over to serve to me (at P). When Smith gets to a point (K) not less than one foot and not more than two feet beyond the center of the court (I know now what I only felt then-that timing is everything in this gambit), Joad (standing at J2) called across...