Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American multiple-warhead missiles would again put parity well beyond their immediate reach, and undoubtedly prompt them to embark on a new race to catch up. Finally, a disarmament-minded faction within the Kremlin, led by Kosygin and other economic planners, is believed to have won out for the moment over the generals and the "metal eaters" by arguing that the arms race could lead not only to further economic strain but even to war. Johnson's spadework for the forthcoming talks began less than two months after he took office. In January 1964 he wrote to Nikita Khrushchev...
Castro, who wrote a 7,000-word introduction to the diary, was a bit vague when it came to explaining his propaganda coup. "The way that the diary came into our hands cannot be divulged at the moment," he wrote. "It is enough to say that it required no monetary remuneration." Actually, several copies of the diary have been around for the stealing or buying. At least one copy each had been photographed for Bolivian President Rene Barrientos, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and several Bolivian military brass. In addition, two U.S. journalists were allowed to transcribe many...
...will gain niches in British folklore, but few will rate the special affection that went to diffident Alec Rose, as he quietly accepted the tributes of 200,000 horn-honking fans who overran Portsmouth, his home town, to greet him. Unlike Chichester, Rose had no commercial sponsor. From the moment, five years ago, when he hauled the dilapidated Lively Lady off a mudbank and started to fit her out for the rough 50-week sail, determination counted far more heavily than cash in his achievement. "It makes you feel rather humble," said Alec, "that everybody wants to congratulate...
Which reminds me that you neglected in your letter to mention your own current marital status. If you haven't a wife at the moment, I advise you to acquire one without delay. Wives can be extremely important at tax time not, of course, for the piddling $600 exemptions they bring with them, but for their in-come-splitting potential. Philip M. Stern, a would-be tax reformer who is, I am afraid, trying to do away with this convenient practice, says that in 1964 the wife of a man with $1,000,000 in taxable income was worth...
...theologians tend to interpret the Bible's previews more in terms of symbolism. "We believe in the life eternal," said Paul. "We believe that the souls of all those who die in the grace of Christ, whether they must still be purified in Purgatory or whether from the moment they leave their bodies Jesus takes them to Paradise, are the people of God in the eternity beyond death, which will be finally conquered on the day of the resurrection when these souls will be reunited with their bodies." But those who refuse God will go "to the fire that...