Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment approached, no candidate could claim anywhere near a majority of solid, blitz-proof delegates. Like its well-remembered counterpart of 1940, this would be an open convention. Most of the convention's 1,094 votes were still uncommitted to any candidate. The delegates' decisions were still deferred for many reasons: honest indecision, a desire to make a deal, a desire to be on the winning side...
...Black Day." As the news reached Europe, the Communist press broke out in jubilant headlines. Pro-U.S. papers were badly shaken. Wrote Rome's Il Tempo: "Whatever happens in the Senate, the harm has been done . . . Europe will live in perpetual fear that from one moment to the next America will ship her oars...
Soon he heard from the U.S. consul. He was turned down. "The letter made it clear . . . that the U.S. for the moment is in short pants and that until it gets back to adult ways there is nothing to do but be gently intolerant of its behavior. It is not easy to have any other attitude toward America in a tantrum, there is so much of ourselves in its people...
...problem was so big and so basic that men on both sides of the Iron Curtain got together last week to discuss it. They were worried about the 30 million children in Europe who are not getting enough to eat. For the moment, politics was put aside...
...Commencement appearance of Paul G. Hoffman comes not only at the striking moment one year after Secretary Marshall's opening shot for European Recovery but also at a moment when the fate of United States foreign policy suffers the meanest of political buffetings in Washington. It is a time close to the national convention of a party split, as with any group of men expecting power, by fierce final struggling for commanding position. Homeground evidence of the overriding importance of the outcome of this competition has existed during the past two weeks in the rampant speculation about Republican Presidential hopefuls...