Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this happy moment a wild shout was heard at the back of the barn. The audience turned to see allegory brought up to date. Brandishing a long broom, Maria Conti rushed in behind her Communist husband. "If you think you can keep me just listening to your ideas when it's my duty to occupy an important official post," she shouted, "you'll have to buy me a new broom...
Along the road, by the story the cops told later, one of the gunmen asked for a moment's halt, and everyone got out of the car. Then, the police solemnly reported, somebody jostled somebody else, and the three prisoners started to run. Then, in line with the traditional ley de fuga (shot while trying to escape), they were killed in their tracks...
...religious leader will agree, the daily press does not present a coherent account of religious activity in this country and throughout the world. ... At this moment throughout the state universities there is being established a system of religious education unparalleled in the history of progressive religion. . . . These currents, more important perhaps than farm blocs or youthful novelists, are lost sight of by the reader of the daily press...
...used car trade, a boomtown bonanza since 1945, was settling back into being just a business. And for the moment, at least, business was not very good. Since the first of the year, used car prices have fallen between 10 and 20%. Last week, even with lower prices, most used car lots were jammed with bright, shiny secondhand jobs, and sales were pretty much at a standstill...
...appear daring, he says, to offer a vision of a constructive social order at "the moment of Europe's greatest agony" (the book was written during the war). "But the more cruel the world, the greater the temptation to escape it in thought, and it is disquieting to consider the intensity of optimism which, failing the proper catharsis of constructive action, may shortly be necessary to deaden the pains that are now scarring the memory of the race...