Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Klein will need to summon all his strength as a newsman and as an editor to make his new job work. For his protestations of probity last week will undoubtedly be replayed to him the moment the new Administration gets caught in even the most trivial shading, inflation or seeming suppression of the facts...
...last week, European statesmen were pleasantly surprised at the relative mildness of its immediate economic after effects. Thanks mainly to France's severe austerity program, the franc regained some of its strength, and the free world's finely balanced monetary system was spared, at least for the moment, a major upheaval (see BUSINESS). But the political consequences of the crisis continued to reverberate in half a dozen capitals, The West Germans had defended the Deutsche Mark against the combined efforts of France, Britain and the U.S. to bring about the mark's upward revaluation, a move that...
...base of a 657-year-old giant, she placed a plaque designating the 27,000-acre Redwood National Park, a project that has pitted the Government and conservationists against private lumber concerns that have been felling great swatches of the dwindling redwood stands. "This is the crowning moment of a crusade that has lasted two generations," she said. "It would be a tragedy if tomorrow's tourists find a repetition of yesterday's mistakes: neon strips and honky-tonks...
Every minute of that show was like the last three seconds of the Harvard-Yale game. Or whatever moment in your life has ever turned you on to the point of shouting. As a rock and roll expatriate, I can remember many such moments: hearing Bill Haley screaming "Rock Around the Clock," in a movie theater; hearing Ray Charles, live at El Monte Legion Stadium, after singing ten minutes of "What...
...Workers do not have power at the moment. The only possible means for them is to mobilize in large numbers. Their flirtation with Wallace was an attempt to acquire some institutional power in government. Traditional politics, the Democratic and Republican parties, do not offer them this institutional role...