Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season two-thirds over, the Baltimore Orioles, last year's first-place team, were in eighth place, and the Chicago White Sox, last year's fourth-place team, were in first. Add to that the fact that the three toughest clubs in the league at the moment were 1) the Washington Senators, 2) the California Angels, and 3) the Boston Red Sox, all of which were patsies last year, and the plot for the 1967 pennant race was purely theater of the absurd...
...Bosporus aboard Sunay's presidential yacht and visited Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), which was, until Sultan Mohammed the Conqueror proclaimed it a mosque in 1453, one of Christendom's largest churches. "It's beautiful," murmured the Pontiff, who startled his hosts by kneeling for a moment of silent prayer in what is now a state museum-and by law out of bounds for worship by any faith...
...moment, Red China's new architect of education, Chen Pota, encouraged by such relative moderates as Chou Enlai, is engaged in a titanic effort to get Chinese students headed back into the schoolrooms. An "urgent appeal" to primary-and secondary-school pupils to return went out last February, and similar orders were given for college and university students in March. But as of last week, only 31 of China's 840 universities and colleges had resumed classes on even a token level, and the percentage of secondary schools open was just as low. In most cases the schoolrooms...
...figure quoted of $10 million dollars in so-called Section 112 credits is without basis in fact. No one has calculated the credits under existing conditions, let alone estimate them for possible future plans. These credits have a life-span of five years, and therefore vary from moment to moment...
Unlike her husband, Lady Macbeth lacks imagination. But she does not lack will. Yet Miss Nye repeatedly lets her strong will go slack. Or take the small but vital moment that trips up so many actresses. Macbeth is reluctant to choose the path of murder and says, "If we should fail--," to which Lady Macbeth replies, "We fail"--two tiny words. The Folio punctuation is no clear guide here. The words admit three groups of interpretation, depending on whether they are regarded as being followed by a question mark, an exclamation point, or a period. Mrs. Siddons, history's most...