Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making cracks at me, I decided to control my temper, and with considerable disdain began to spread caviar on dry toast, chatting with my friends Sir Pitt Applecore-Bart, his wife Schlubbie of the British Empire five-and-dime, and Prince Eddie Rattone, her best friend. For a moment I felt we had scored, but suddenly, in a rather loud voice, Hemingway disputed my bravery at scary movies, and naturally I saw red, slammed my way to his table, and challenged him to prove it. Unable to do so, he threw a martini olive, but it hit Schlubbie...
Consumer prices may rise more slowly in the months ahead. One indication is that wholesale prices were moving up only modestly during April, in contrast with strong advances during several earlier months. Softwood lumber prices, for example, jumped by 61% in March, but have begun falling again. For the moment, however, high prices are hurting not only the consumer but the exporter. The U.S. balance of payments, which was $990 million in the black at the end of last year, is expected to show a large deficit for the first quarter of the year. The important trade balance...
...That those inside had been warned from the moment they entered the building that their action could get them in trouble, and "they had twelve hours [since Dean Ford's 4 p.m. statement] to get out of there and nobody...
...military establishment. It is a truism that soldiers exist to fight--and win--wars. Major "conventional" conflicts are unlikely, if only because they would quickly become nuclear once any party thought it was losing, the U.S. is inept at combating guerrilla units, and major nuclear was is, at the moment, strategically unacceptable. There just don't seem to be any kinds of wars the U.S. can win anymore. The obvious question becomes: What do we need soldiers for? or, at least, what do we need so many soldiers and weapons...
...yard during hours of extended parietals. It is actually being at the inevitable, notorious events which accompany the weekend. It's over 1000 people forgetting papers, exam pressures, and jobs. It's a whole class celebrating a spring ritual and soaking up the spontaneous merriment of each moment. The augment this, there are always the normal attractions of Boston, Cambridge, and Harvard...