Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...someone lies down before a limousine I'd run him over.' Anybody who says that shouldn't be President." In fact, he told reporters, no man who talks that way "is even fit to be President." Nixon's crowds were uniformly large, but for the moment, it was Humphrey's campaign that seemed livelier-if only in contrast to his dismal showing earlier...
...students and the government reached a tragic climax of the quarrels that began last July. It was at least partly the result of a miscalculation. The students had planned a mass march to one of their campuses occupied by the army, but called it off at the last moment when they heard there were troop concentrations along the route. However, the army, under strict orders to crush the demonstrations at any cost, moved in anyway...
...Saved!" shouted Joan Kennedy at the press conference. "I have a feeling I came at the right time," said Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who turned up at just the proper moment to rescue her from a tricky question about the Pans peace talks. Joan was in Hoosier land campaigning for Bayh's reelection, reminding her audiences that it was he who had risked his life to pull her husband Teddy out of the wreckage in that near-fatal light-plane crash near Springfield, Mass., tour years ago. At one rally she let her listeners...
...single game a World Series. But for a record crowd of 54,692 at St. Louis' Busch Stadium-and millions more who watched on TV-last week's 1968 Series opener between the home town Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers settled one question, at least for the moment: Who is the best pitcher in baseball...
...behind Marcel Marceau, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, Dick Gregory and Jack Benny. And they will do anything once they get before a camera. Marceau in future programs will perform pantomime bits, but most of the other guests will utter senseless non sequiturs, or the reigning catch phrase of the moment, such as "irky perky!" and "Sock it to me!" Sammy Davis Jr., who last season turned his here-come-de-Judge antics into a rollicking miniballet, now reports that when he strolls through a Negro neighborhood, all the kids trail after him squealing the phrase in chorus. It would...