Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connection with this bit of praise, Rick explains that it also caused him the most embarassing moment in his career...
With a roar, a wave of provincial protest against higher freight rates (TIME, April 12) broke last week against the federal government. For a moment the government staggered, then the skillful footwork of Mackenzie King got things right again. Because the case for higher rates, based on the railways' higher costs, was solid, the government stood pat; it ordered the new schedule to take effect immediately. Then it offered a concession...
...propose that a small amount of radioactive phosphorus be added to the mix. When it (and the ordinary phosphorus with it) has been burned out of the steel, automatic instruments will note instantaneously the drop in radioactivity. Then the air blast can be shut off at exactly the right moment...
...opponent's eyes, and Rocky's white trunks looked like a butcher's apron. Home, a shifty boxer, managed to last out the ten rounds. Rocky won, by a decision, and then rushed over to hug & kiss the man he had been trying to decapitate a moment before-and 5,181 fans roared approvingly...
...Clock (Paramount) is a slick screen version of Kenneth Fearing's thriller about a press lord (Charles Laughton) who murders his blonde mistress in a moment of pique. Too late he recalls that he was seen entering the girl's apartment by a man, identity unknown. The publisher sets out to find the witness. He puts the super-sleuthing editor (Ray Milland) of his detective magazine on the trail. Milland is told that he is after "a payoff man in an enormous war-contract scandal," but it doesn't take him long to find out that...