Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dove into the East River (see cut). Baseball was going full blast and the sports fiends had a startling topic of conversation-old Connie Mack had his A's up on top after 17 years in cold storage. The hammock season was almost here. Just at the moment, it looked like a beautiful morning...
...return of General Douglas MacArthur to his native land, after four years of war and three as master of Japan, will be an event. For a brief moment last week it looked as if that event were about to happen...
...dishes ought to look, without waiting for them to cook or jell. On the air, Mrs. Lucas does it all over again, explaining her tricks in a no-monkey-business British accent. Her principal television bugbear is common to every kitchen: how to get everything ready at the right moment. Sometimes she has to gloss over the end of her TV bill of fare in a hurry; again, she may have to ad-lib with her eggbeater, in order to fill out the half-hour. "Food is alive," she says. "You never know how it will...
...justice or chaos. We must withstand the tempters-in whatever gilded cups they may be serving the red wine of seduction-when they cry from the right or from the left: 'Put your ballot in our box and your sins will be forgiven.' Let us at this moment and in this place give the order to our innermost hearts: 'Germans to the Front...
...that same moment, sentries on an opposite corner of the wall rubbed their eyes. A flock of black sheep was emerging from the night like a moving blot. When the animals reached the wide moat in front of the wall they plunged in, began swimming across; yet there were no visible herdsmen. A sentry fired into the flock. One of the dark objects in the moat erupted in a geyser of flame and water. Then men on the wall witnessed an amazing thing: some of the sheep seemed to be flipping off their black wool skins and running away...