Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the U.S.'s merry-go-round policy on Palestine came to a brief stop. For the moment everyone could get a fixed look at the breathless man on the carousel...
...Jericho. The long-awaited deadline was not greeted by everyone with cheers, tears or public congratulations. At the moment when Cunningham's cruiser slipped into the Mediterranean and the White House was preparing its announcement, a short (5 ft. 4 in.), chubby man, in sweeping robes and with one loose end of his Hejaz turban flopping rakishly at his shoulder, was standing in the night air, five miles east of the Jordan. Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, King of the Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan, was watching his Arab Legion assemble. During the day, fierce-faced, khaki-clad soldiers of Transjordan...
...more than 11 quarts of chocolate beverage were removed from the cart in which Clark transports his stock in trade. He was inside only a moment, but the milk, case and all, was gone when he stepped back...
...couple of guys named McCarthy and Dooney did in the Crimson at Philadelphia. These gentlemen timed their only two-base hits of the afternoon perfectly, consecutively in the ninth inning, to win the game at almost the last possible moment. This unfortunate routine spoiled the fun that Cliff Crosby's home run, doubles by Huntington, Gannon, and Caulfield, and a brace of singles by Walt Coulson might otherwise have assured...
...This," said one disgusted A.P. photographer, "is the damnedest war I ever saw. It's all front-with no back and no sides to it." Sometimes a road may be quite peaceful; the next moment it may be swept with gunfire. Even with Arab, Jewish and British press cards, it is a problem to get people on the spot to accept you. In the Arab quarter of the old city, for example, unless you have an armed escort from the Arabs' national headquarters, you might be fired on, attacked by a crowd as a Jewish spy, or arrested...