Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giddy moment of multi-cultural promise passed all too quickly. Only three weeks later, an elaborate, College-sponsored program specifically for Harvard titled AWARE--Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism--flopped because of student disinterest, non-attendance. Billed as a means to work out mounting racial tensions on campus and targeted largely at the white community, the week of activities was supposed to help resolve "racism among the well-intentioned...
...took at least one of the four annual Grand Slam titles; for 14 straight years, she ranked first, second or third in the world. Her favorite victory came at age 15 over Margaret Smith Court, mere weeks after Court completed a sweep of the Grand Slams. But her finest moment was probably in the final of the 1986 French Open, when she fought back from a set down to defeat her most esteemed rival, Martina Navratilova, and win the title for a record seventh time. The competition with Navratilova spanned 16 years, 80 thrilling matches (Martina leads...
...radar in unreachable corners of the court. Above all, she seemed nerveless. She did not fret about the point just past, however irritating her own error or an official's miscall, and she did not think about what would come next. She focused, with almost icy calm, on the moment and the ball. "My whole career," she recalled last week, "people have been talking about how tough I am. Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion...
...overjoyed by that news was Churchill. "So we had won after all," he thought on hearing it. "How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care. Once again in our long island history, we should emerge, however mauled or mutilated, safe and victorious...
...Hitler's moment of supreme triumph, in the spring of 1941, he boldly made his supreme error, the error that was to destroy him. He decided to invade Soviet Russia. Exactly why he made this catastrophic miscalculation will never be known for sure. In part it was ideology. He had begun his political career by attacking the Bolsheviks, and he dreamed of Germany's finding Lebensraum by colonizing the vast lands to the east. He had written in Mein Kampf: "When we speak of new territory in Europe today, we must think principally of Russia and her border vassal states...