Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then enter the regular undergraduate program if and when they qualify. Unfortunately, lack of money threatens both the long-range plan and the tutoring program. Assorted protests and racial fights have reached such a pitch at C.C.N.Y. that President Buell Gallagher recently resigned (TIME, May 16). For the moment, Gallagher has been succeeded by Joseph J. Copeland, a 61-year-old professor of biology, who is now serving as acting president...
...Even as the astronauts were being welcomed aboard the recovery carrier Princeton, American space officials were looking confidently ahead to the Apollo 11 lunar-landing mission now scheduled for July. Said Thomas Paine, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston: "Today, this moment, with the Apollo 10 crew safely on board, we know we can go to the moon. We will go to the moon...
Earthy Language. "This is a proud moment for the country," President Nixon told the astronauts in a three-minute phone call from his White House office to the Princeton, and other congratulations came in from all the world. But the acclaim was not universal. In a telegram to the President and to NASA, Larry Poland, 29, president of Miami Bible College Inc., complained that the Apollo 10 astronauts had carried "the language of the street" to the moon and called on the crew to repent their "profanity, vulgarity and blasphemy." Each astronaut, said the minister, should be required to issue...
...responds by defending it, often with violence. Kinzel believes that the dimensions of the circle may provide a clue to the violence potential of its inhabitant: the larger the circle, the more intolerant its inhabitant to invasion of his personal space. A rapidly expanding circle may signal that dangerous moment when the panic invoked by intrusion is about to escalate into destructive action...
...they must learn to take as well, since he loves to shower them with thoughtful gifts: a favorite delicacy, a dozen fine Majorcan handkerchiefs embroidered with their signatures, a monogrammed cigarette lighter. For a grown man, he is wildly sentimental; every reunion is a ceremonial occasion, every farewell a moment of mourning. In between, there are Temple's affectionate letters, punctuated, illustrated and signed with drawings of himself feeling stupid, say, or disgusted, or raffish. Thus...