Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sank from his crutches into a chair and picked up a copy of LIFE. Suddenly he started. The number was two years old; it contained a famous picture of himself, impeccably attired in top hat and morning coat, signing Japan's surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. At that moment, Lieut. Colonel Aubrey Kenworthy, U.S. officer in charge of the prisoners, passed. "Haven't you seen these pictures before?" he asked. Shigemitsu shook his unkempt head, kept turning the pages. Then he muttered: "It's been such a long time...
Fast work had prevented a possible Red putsch in Athens, but the new state of affairs in the north was something else again. The Soviet puppets, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia were expected to "recognize" Vafiades at any moment. Cautious Mother Russia might do so later, if things went well. For a "cold war" the international conflict was giving off a lot of heat...
...family obligations. One militia leader explained: "We don't want anyone who has children so small they can't be cared for by nuns and not big enough to take care of themselves. And we don't want anyone whose wife will say at a crucial moment, 'Carino, be very careful...
While Father X talked, there came a knock on the door. A young, weatherbeaten face peered in. "You have a package for me?" asked Father X. "All right, bring it in." A moment later three young men appeared, grunting under the weight of a long package. It was pointed at one end, wide and flat at the other. Toward the pointed end was a bulge-just where the feet of a machine gun fold...
...Reforma to the Spanish Cemetery on the city's outskirts. That was not many for the ex-President of Nicaragua whom thousands damned last January when he took office as a stooge of Dictator Somoza, praised last spring when he cut loose to give Nicaragua a brief moment of honest government, mourned last May when the dictator deposed...