Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent years. Later he even acknowledged that perhaps "we overspoke ourselves" in promising to "go any place, any time" to negotiate with North Viet Nam. While he predicted that preliminary talks with the Communists would get started "in a very short time," the delicate diplomatic situation of the moment gave Humphrey a welcome opportunity to concentrate on domestic matters...
...will judge the achievements of the Johnson years. "I believe that you know," he said, "and that our children will know, and all history will know, that that is an unparalleled record." The fencing for a site to negotiate with Hanoi, which continued throughout the week, disappeared for a moment from the President's consciousness...
...filed. Counsel arrived at 12:15, the clerk at 12:45; by 1 p.m. the papers were duly stamped. Unfortunately, Mr. Freeman had died at 12:20. But a U.S. judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania has just ruled that the action could be considered filed at the moment counsel arrived; Mrs. Freeman won her race after all. The damage suit against the shipowner and Universal Terminal & Stevedoring Corp. will now go to trial...
...practically impossible; second, because sensible driving is a pleasurable good (Renard, 34, a high school chaplain in the northern French village of Bethune, likes to drive himself). The only solution to the ethical problem of the automobile, he affirms, is for Christians to cease reverting to barbarianism the moment they climb behind the wheel...
...whom he introduced bore the family names that count in Cambridge politics--O'Neill, Crane, Danehy, Lynch, and Good, to name a few. Some had gone to St. Paul's School with Walter; others were his near or distant relatives; all were his political allies, at least for the moment...