Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the old-fashioned slugging, Nixon and Humphrey reserved their heaviest efforts for television. Both sides planned a crescendo of commercials and broadcast exposure for the candidates during the last two days before the vote. The expenditure of millions for radio and TV time up to the last possible moment was probably wise tactics. It was the kind of campaign in which many voters withheld a final decision until actually confronted with the ballot...
...lord, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your principles." Today, Prime Minister Harold Wilson can also hold his own. When a heckler shouted "Rub bish!" during a 1966 election rally, Wilson won points by imperturbably replying: "We'll take up your special interest in a moment...
Beneath crystal chandeliers inside Hradcany Castle, on a high hill over looking Prague, the party and government leaders of Czechoslovakia gathered to observe the 50th anniversary of their independence from Austro-Hungarian rule. The moment was solemn - and cautious. "I beg you not to demonstrate," Josef Smrkovský, President of the National Assembly, had pleaded with the students of Prague's Charles University. "Would it be surprising if tanks appeared? If you demonstrate, we might all be sorry." Most of the university heeded the warning, marking the day quietly with a philosophy-department "teach-in" against the Russian occupation...
Nixon has always pushed his family on the public earnestly and gracelessly. Monday was no exception. There among the rows of faceless operators earnestly jotting down questions were Julie and Tricia, who both took a moment or two from their labors to tell the nation what young people are thinking...
After Bridwell's decision of last February, a relieved Cambridge sighed that at least the final, irrevocable decision on the Belt had been delayed for two years. But at the moment, no one can tell if it'll even be that long before the BPR makes the decision to send the bulldozers crawling up Brookline...