Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Just after midnight they find a grain car with a narrow porch. Twenty minutes later, the freight pauses to add an engine, and aliens from the Mexican border clamber aboard frantically. Finally, the clickety-clack commences for the last time. A hobbyist road-named the "Gentle Giant" defines this moment. "You face nature, and the train is your friend," he says. "All your senses are alive. You'll love your wife, your children and your home better." Three weary faces framed in a sunrise breaking behind the westbound freight seem to agree...
...great occasions lately, the rest of the world has broken back. By any objective measurement, Britain's Sandy Lyle, the current Masters champion, is the most accomplished player of the moment. In some order, he is followed by the Australian Greg Norman, the Spaniard Seve Ballesteros and perhaps the Americans Lanny Wadkins and Strange. A winner of $3 million and no major titles, Strange was the signature U.S. golfer...
...court handed down its ruling. Many other clubs have opted to do likewise rather than face municipal action that can include embarrassing public inquiries into their admissions policies. Boston's 450-member St. Botolph Club recently admitted Katherine Fanning, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and not a moment too soon. Just a day after last week's ruling, Boston officials warned three other clubs that they face the loss of food and liquor licenses if their membership policies are unchanged by the end of July...
Sherlock Holmes once told Watson cryptically about the "giant rat of Sumatra." The terrible truth about the creature, Holmes said, is one "for which the world is not yet prepared." It was a lovely moment of conjuration: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle suddenly, out of nowhere, created the hairy monster, and just as suddenly he whisked it out of sight: the world was not yet prepared to confront the horror. So the giant rat lingers in the mind as an enigmatic apparition...
Although no polls have been taken, an informal Main Street sampling shows Dukakis leading for the moment, though about one-third of the voters remain undecided. Judge Hoppes feels that Dukakis has slowly grown on his neighbors. "Dukakis is like the salesman who banged on the door last month and said, 'I know you didn't buy anything last month, but I'd like to help you out this month.' He wears well on you. Pretty soon he's a member of the family." Jim Young of Ochoco Feed and Farm Supply agrees. "Dukakis has got more for the workingman...