Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he has not ruled out a future role in politics. Indeed, only two Czechs are known widely enough to serve as symbols for change in their country; both were sitting there on the couch. As Havel's wife Olga noted when the meeting was over, it was "a moment of history...
...moment Ed Krayer's backhanded shot crawled past Minnesota goalie Robb Stauber in the overtime period of the title game, I thought that it was all some cruel joke...
...couple of fans raised a sign that read "Cleary Country," usually reserved for Boston Garden, the place where two months earlier Harvard captured the Beanpot for the first time since 1981. But for just one brief moment in the Land of the Golden Gophers, those fans were right...
...nigger." Ask them -- I grew up with them. I remember in the fifth grade a smart little boy who had just arrived and didn't speak any English. He sat next to me. I read well, and I taught him to read just by doing it. I remember the moment he found out that I was black -- a nigger. It took him six months; he was told. And that's the moment when he belonged, that was his entrance. Every immigrant knew he would not come as the very bottom. He had to come above at least one group...
There was this ad hoc nature of everyday life. For black people, anybody ! might do anything at any moment. Two miles in any direction, you may run into Quakers who feed you or Klansmen who kill you -- you don't know. When you leave the plantation, you are leaving not only what you know, you are leaving your family...