Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madrid, 2,000 teleficionados paid 15 pesetas ($1.40) a head to see a special RCA exhibition: Spain's first telecast of a bull fight. When the image blurred at the big moment, a few yelled "estafa" (swindle) and got their money back...
...claimed they had heard the noise or knew a friend who had, but to be really sure a poet had to go by dawn to the side of a Tokyo swamp and sit for three long hours while the pink and white blossoms unfold, waiting tensely for the moment when the bud burst open to the morning light. It took a discerning ear to separate the sound of an opening lotus from the purl of a fish lazily waking to his morning meal or the plip of a dewdrop on a mossy stone...
...Next Moment, Whoom! To watch* a jet engine spring into life is to feel that power. Dimly visible inside is the turbine, like a small windmill with close-set vanes. When the starting motor whines, the turbine spins. A tainted breeze blows through the exhaust vent in the tail, followed by a thin grey fog of atomized kerosene. Deep in the engine a single sparkplug buzzes. A spot of fire dances in a circle behind the turbine. Next moment, with a hollow whoom, a great yellow flame leaps out. It cuts back to a faint blue cone, a cone that...
...time. Announcing the decision at a Pentagon press conference, Clay was cautiously optimistic. "I don't want to minimize the situation in Germany. It is a serious situation. However, I do not think there is anybody in the world who is out looking for war at this moment...
Second Lieut. Felix ("Doc") Blanchard, blockbusting "Mr. Inside" of West Point's great wartime football teams, was busy concentrating on his profession. Learning to fly jet fighters at Williams Field, Ariz., he tried on a crash helmet, just for a moment struck a pose reminiscent of old times...