Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though history's heart had skipped a beat. For a brief, illusory moment, other struggles between Communism and the West seemed suspended-as if the contestants paused to watch the outcome of the stirring battle being fought in Italy. At dawn this Sunday, Italians will go to the polls to choose, in a democratic election, between Communism and the West...
That the result could even for a moment be in doubt was a bitter comment on the West's terrible uncertainty. It was in the Italian peninsula that the West's Christian faith, bearing a cross and strange new hopes, had begun its conquest of the world. Was it to be defeated now, on the soil on which it had been strongest, by the new tyrannical faith of Communism...
Shortly before 1 p.m., a light rain swept across Bogotá, wetting the columns of the Capitolio. There the ninth International Conference of American States had been in session for a fortnight on matters of high moment to the hemisphere-the industrial upbuilding of Latin America, the problem of Communism in the Americas. As the rain began to fall, most meetings adjourned for lunch...
...asked an outstanding Chinese Christian leader: 'Do you still feel that you can use the foreign missionary in your Christian enterprise?' He thought for a moment and then answered: 'Yes, but not all. We have to be sure that he is of the kind that will fit in with our plans. . . .' This is a significant utterance. It is 'our plans.' The Chinese are to work out the plan; it is their judgment . . . that is to determine the situation. . . . Within that situation, the foreigner is welcome...
There is a survey on presidential candidates in the hands of our interviewers in the field at the moment-and this one really is being conducted by Roper for FORTUNE. Mr. Wallace is included in it. It's going to be interesting to see if those who so eagerly believe Mr. Winchell and the Daily Worker will as willingly accept these results a few weeks from...