Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ogilvie's quick action in dealing with racial demonstrations had for the moment offset the unpopularity of his tax proposal. But the ephemeral drift of public opinion and other obstacles seem to matter little to the Governor. In three months in office he has marched without hesitation into every political minefield in sight. He has promised to "dismantle" Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine. He has set out to overhaul the state's fiscal program, and in his spare time to reorganize the state Republican party...
Starkly Explicit. Cooley said that his decision to use the artificial heart, developed by Argentine-born Dr. Domingo Liotta, was made on the spur of the moment. "It was an act of desperation," Cooley admitted. "I was concerned, of course, because this had never been done before. But we had to put up one Sputnik to start the space program, and we had to start here some place...
...short, since most students are at the moment preoccupied with a set of loose and limited goals, and regard the Faculty as an instrument of resolution rather than reaction, today's meeting can easily do positive good. Riding out the present insurgency, however, will have no lasting meaning if the University then sits back thinking the job well done. Far more profound questions lurk behind those raised by the strike, and they will have to be tackled in earnest if Harvard wants to avoid an endless cycle of embitterment and stagnation...
Afro led the march around the Houses and a little bit of soul was added to the same old chants as the demonstrators sang "strike, strike, we're on strike" and "Kumbaya." In front of President Pusey's house, the demonstrators stood for a moment of silence with their hands raised in the "V" sign...
Keen academicians who have traced student travail from Berkeley to Columbia to the Quadrangle at Harvard, unofficially agree that the moment of truth is at hand--if Harvard frays then the entire U.S. university fabric could unravel...