Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sparrow zeroes in on the elaborate theoretical situations the critics have constructed to bolster their contention that the assassination was a consummately scripted plot. One such thesis is that a sniper-not necessarily Lee Harvey Oswald-fired at the President from the Texas School Book Depository at the very moment that one or several other assassins fired from the grassy knoll overlooking the highway...
ALMOST from the moment that it started bombing targets in the North, the U.S. has repeatedly stated its willingness to negotiate peace in Viet Nam-any time, anywhere. But so far, the possible terms for a settlement have been discussed in only the most general way. President Johnson has said that South Viet Nam should be guaranteed peace, independence and democracy-the same conditions that the Viet Cong tirelessly call for. Senator William Fulbright speaks of neutralization and mutual withdrawal by U.S. and North Vietnamese forces. Senator Eugene McCarthy speaks rather broadly of withdrawing to strongpoints, reducing military operations...
...scores of restrictive laws, banned mini skirts and beatniks' beards, clamped an iron censorship on the press, and sent hundreds of Greeks to prison on such charges as "speaking ill of the authorities" and playing the music of out lawed leftist composers. Constantine waited, hoping for the proper moment to spring a countercoup that would oust the junta and re-establish parliamentary rule in Greece...
...young King, that moment seemed to have arrived last week. As he saw it, the junta had lost face in Greece by bowing to Turkish demands to pull out 8,000 Greek troops from Cyprus - though its willingness to compromise had undoubtedly prevented a war and an irreparable rupture in NATO...
From that moment on she lived for Fridays only. She sang Greek with Greeks. She hobnobbed with outcasts in the Bick. She shot hypocrisy. Devoured peaches. Drank gin-and-tonics in February. Flashed white gloves. Picked lilacs. Patronized Hattie Carnegie. Slept in churches. Teased Kay and terrified Claire. Laughed all week and cried Tuesdays. Bought Broadway. Clung to The Wings of the Dove. Pressed a morning into a moment...