Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
Flawlessly attired in a black Chanel suit, Frances Lear gazes for a moment out her office window at the Madison Avenue traffic below. Then, whippet-like, she whirls to confront the semicircle of editors at her morning story conference. "What's the word we want?" she asks. Through owlish goggles she scrutinizes their faces, as if seeing them for the first time. Before anyone can answer, she darts to her chair and provocatively settles her slender black-stockinged legs on a cluttered coffee table. She sits stiffly, ladylike. Her expressive hands, with their buffed, not polished nails, beat...
...readily exalts the sexual power of feminine beauty. Blissfully she recalls lounging about a country-club pool in her 20s. "I was wearing a fuchsia top and bottom, brief for those times. My body was just right. Well, the men just kept on coming over to me. At that moment, beauty was power." As the priestess of age preaches her formula for mature beauty to Madison Avenue, once again heads are snapping...
...brief moment at Monday night's City Council meeting, one of the strangest political alliances in Cambridge history seemed to coalesce...
...body in the period between Communist Party congresses. It has the formal power to vote out the ruling Politburo, but it can replenish its own ranks only when a congress is convened. With the next regular congress scheduled for 1991, the Soviet leader had to be content, for the moment, with promoting 24 junior members of the present body from candidate to voting members. Though the Central Committee was thus downsized by 50 members, to 251, reinforcements are on the way. Since the last congress, in 1986, Gorbachev has changed party leaders in six out of 15 republics...