Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This Petulant Ajax." The maneuver was almost unprecedented. Not since 1856 had a President called back Congress in an election year.* It was a daring stroke of political chicanery. For the moment, at least, Harry Truman had destroyed the notion that the Republican Party would win almost by default. Like an aggressive general, he had seized the offensive at a time and place of his own choosing. If anyone had thought that the President would fight a hopeless delaying action against the Dewey panzers, it was now plain as a tank track that Harry Truman meant to go down fighting...
Glories of Night. The professor loves the night. "The human mind at such a moment may reflect," he says, "that all the glories of night are a consequence of a trifle of shadow that lies back of the earth, the sun banging through its great system, only here and there blocked by a tiny opaque ball that casts its tiny shadow. Because of that shadow-all the night music, the night poetry, the dark thoughts, the neon signs, the silent seductions, the bats, the thieveries, the large frights, the small frights, the mere worries, the walking of floors careful that...
...Easter [1947] High Mass was the most gripping and solemn service I ever experienced. Sixty Lutheran P.O.W.s from the Bible belt near Bielefeld, Germany, approached me on Holy Saturday night and asked for permission to come to our Catholic liturgy and Holy Communion. My heart stood still for a moment. By questioning them, I found out that all of them believe in the Real Presence,† that nearly all of them were used to confessing their sins, and all knew how to elicit perfect contrition. All had been baptized . . . by believing Lutheran ministers...
...Nijinsky] was standing on a chair, screaming sixteen, seventeen, eighteen'-they had their own method of counting time. [But] naturally the poor dancers could hear nothing ... I had to hold Nijinsky by his clothes, for he was furious, and ready to dash on to the stage at any moment . . . Diaghilev kept ordering the electricians to turn the lights on or off, hoping in that way to put a stop to the noise...
...moment (because of a funds dispute affecting San Antonio's big Robert B. Green Hospital), the opening of Mrs. Starr's Good Samaritan meant that the city's Negroes have proportionately more bed space than is available to white San Antonians...