Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked to embark errs gravely. Now is the time to exploit our "crisis" consciousness. President Truman has used the bankruptcy of his Doctrine's failure to redouble his demands--rather than to halt in his tracks and take stock. With public opinion recognizing the crossroads nature of the moment a reorientation of United States policy can and should evolve...
League competitor says Coach Samborski, will be no pushover. He predicts a close race all the way through, with pitching the deciding factor. But Samborski is not too concerned with the long run outlook. All he wants to do at the moment is find a starting nine for the season's start with Johns Hopkins, at the end of the month...
...moment, a pungent-looking persons wanders over and says briskly, "I'm awfully sorry, but you seem to be sitting in my seat." That's all there is to it; no protest, no appeal from this awful fact; just silent submission...
Exactly how the novel managed to see the light of day at the very moment when Hitler was preparing to overrun Europe remains a mystery. Some critics have speculated that Juenger's close connections with German army leaders saved his book and his skin; others felt that the Nazi censors were unwilling to admit they had been asleep at the switch. In any case, On the Marble Cliffs remained a thorn in the Nazi side throughout the war. When the Russians were attacked, they translated and published it-though its denunciation of tyranny fits more than one foot...
...Wallaces he has drawn (and quartered) "would find it difficult to live inside the same house together, let alone inside the same skin. . . . Henry Wallace No. 1 is a mystic, an amateur of esoteric doctrines. . . . Henry Wallace No. 2 is an opportunist, adapting himself to the pressures of the moment, ready to forswear his deepest convictions for immediate gain. . . . Wallace can only alternately express the two sides of his nature, thinking one moment like a Tibetan seer and the next like a cost accountant, acting one moment like St. Francis of Assisi and the next like Boss Hague...