Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinary historical character. People talked of Pithecanthropus as of Pitt or Fox or Napoleon . . . A detailed drawing was reproduced, carefully shaded, to show that the very hairs of his head were all numbered. No uninformed person looking at its carefully lined face and wistful eyes would imagine for a moment that this was the portrait of a thighbone; or of a few teeth and a fragment of a cranium...
...Vietnamese, after all, are fighting in their own country, would still be backed up by American support troops, and may be psychologically braced by the feeling that they must finally stand on their own feet. The argument is far from convincing, but the U.S. has no choice at the moment but to give Vietnamization a fair...
With the country supposedly quiet, the Washington Post could turn the attention of its editorial page to matters of less moment. Or so it thought. After it ran an editorial supporting the anti-bra movement among women and even suggesting that "men blatantly exploit women as consumers" by foisting off such an unnecessary item of apparel, the Post got a chiding letter from an unexpected source. Wrote Elder Statesman Dean Acheson: "What traitor or fifth columnist on your staff embittered the war between the sexes by blaming men for the bra? Even as a boy looking at pictures of Boadicea...
...source of the gloom was not new. In the past eight years, labor disputes have four times brought the Met to the brink of disaster. In 1961 its opening was ensured at the last moment deus ex machina (when President Kennedy intervened). But this time, New Yorkers were realizing with shock, there might be no opening at all. Worried, tired and gaunt, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing told TIME, "We don't know where to go. It is now a matter of life and death...
...addicts set up education programs in several California communities, reported to a recent conference on drug abuse held at Rutgers University: "When we first moved into the schools, we soon found out that it didn't make any difference whether the kids were using drugs or not. After a moment, they were talking about all the problems of life...