Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mills' goal, by contrast, was slow and sweet. From the moment Mills touched the ball in the Indiana end, the shot was expected, anticipated, but somehow still not stoppable...
...American racial and ethnic groups on the way up, gaining control of city hall is confirmation of emerging political clout. So it was a triumphal moment last week when Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins defeated three-term incumbent Edward I. Koch to win the Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City. Since Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1, Dinkins became an instant choice to prevail over the Republican challenger, former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, and become the first black chief executive of the nation's largest city...
...friends is an anonymous character known as "the city man" -- almost certainly Rhodes himself -- who accidently discharges his rifle. The bullet passes through the windshield of a truck and the crown of the driver's cap before channeling into the roof of the cab. It is a chilling moment, one in which to give thanks for a tragedy luckily averted and thanks that Rhodes was not similarly careless when reporting on the atom bomb...
...moment, the authorities are undaunted. At midweek Colombian television began running 30-second commercials featuring mug shots of Rodriguez Gacha and Medellin cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria, and offering 100 million pesos -- about $250,000 -- for information leading to their arrest...
...officials have concluded that the harsh Colombian campaign, for the moment at least, is having a real effect on the supply of cocaine in the U.S. "The cartels are having trouble getting cocaine out of Colombia," said Pat O'Brien, outgoing chief of U.S. Customs in Miami. The government has seized so many of the traffickers' planes and helicopters that they may be having difficulty moving the powder to Colombia's northern coast, the main shipment point for cocaine. And on the drug-hungry streets of the U.S., the price of cocaine is skyrocketing...