Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Gerhardsen last week: "These events [in Czechoslovakia] have awakened gloom and apprehension among us. ... The threat to Norway and to the freedom and independence of the Norwegian people is the danger which the Communist Party represents at the present moment. The most vital task in the fight for independence, democracy and security under law in Norway is that of reducing the Communist Party and its influence. . . . We will try to convince those who joined them in good faith during the war, in the belief that the Communist Party was national and democratic...
...kindly senior customs officer chalked my bags and remarked that I had a beautiful day for flying. I agreed, and added that I hadn't expected to see Finland looking so lovely this early in the year. He looked around through the big glass window for a moment, then half smiled and said: "Oh, it's a nice country! But too small...
...Washington, a long line formed for television licenses. Recently, twelve new applications were made in a single day. In all, 19 stations are now operating in 12 cities, and 82 have construction permits in 51 cities; 93 applications are being investigated, and 64 more are pending. At the moment, NBC, with a network of five stations and 26 more scheduled to open by year's end, topped the heap. But it was hard put to it to stay there...
...story by itself is nothing. What makes the movie is its splendid portrayal of the narcotics agents who help Powell along the way--agents in Shanghai, Cairo, Beirut, Havana, each of whom is caught up for a moment as the great stream of pursuit sweeps by, and then slips away again into the quiet backwaters of his own little world. "To the Ends of the Earth" is, in fact, a story of human cooperation against a common enemy. It knows no international boundaries. And above all, it is true...
...other hand there have been the complementary disasters in the subjective and objective worlds, the failure of personal initiative, lacking a principle of integration and intimidated by the knowledge that thought is conditioned by hunger and desire. . . . This is the moment of potential anarchy when the community lacks any explicit principle of order which can be effective under the conditions of the time. This is the night of violent and bestial release, the opportunity of the inhibited perversions which can now ally themselves with technical power. The dominance of the dissociated idealisms is over, and the two remaining active principles...