Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airborne chaos. Like the planes used in Baltimore last week, each aircraft equipped with CAS is, in effect, shielded by a huge protective electronic bubble. When one plane's bubble brushes another's, it triggers successive alarms in both cockpits. The first comes 42 seconds before the moment of collision as calculated by the CAS's onboard computers. If the planes are still headed toward each other at 30 seconds, a flashing red light warns the pilots to prepare for evasive action. Five seconds later, the computers issue their final command. Depending on the relative positions...
...From the moment she decided to marry him in 1952, she became as convinced as he was that God had a special mission planned for Martin. When he was asked to take on the leadership of the spontaneous Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, they began to understand what the mission would be. All along the extraordinary path that his life then took he agonized over the difficult consequences of his actions. But he never doubted that he was the instrument of God. Once when a mood of deep depression seemed suddenly to have lifted from him overnight, a reporter wondered...
...Juliet sounding doom in her mind: "These violent delights have violent ends." And in due course, another potency symbol-this time an Aston Martin-nearly kills the lovers. A curious kind of post-catastrophe serenity enters the novel. The puritan's dues have been paid, and for the moment all is in equilibrium. Jane, a blocked poet, can even write again...
...against the Project on two points. First, he said, "projects like this attract a horde of people, most of them with absurd ideas for research." More importantly, he said, "I suspect that the people getting most use out of the Project will be the Defense Department, and at this moment in American politics. I don't trust Defense to make the use of it that I would like...
...plan to end the war by the end of 1970 might endanger his own efforts to end it sooner. When he's boxed into a corner, a man does strange things. And we're all heading for the same goddamn corner at a godawful stride just at the moment...