Word: moment
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Wilder's strategy appeared to be working so well that few expected election night to be a Maalox Moment. All the published pre-election surveys had shown Wilder leading his Republican rival J. Marshall Coleman by margins of 4% to 15%. Even an initial television exit poll had anointed Wilder with a 10 percentage-point triumph. But by the time Wilder felt comfortable enough to declare victory, his razor-thin lead had stabilized about where it would end up: just 6,582 votes out of a record 1.78 million ballots cast. That was enough, however, for Virginia's Governor-elect...
...gubernatorial nomination once he pressured State Attorney General Mary Sue Terry to defer her own ambitions until 1993. There was grumbling in the Robb faction of the state party, but once again, no one wanted to risk an open schism by trying to deprive Wilder of his moment on the mountaintop. There was no chance of a racially divisive primary, since Virginia Democrats, unlike those in other Southern states, nominate by convention. In a sense, Wilder was the beneficiary of old- fashioned back-room politics, just as Irish, Italian and Jewish candidates were in the urban North decades ago. With...
...would be granted freer elections as well. Bonn bureau chief Jim Jackson called me to urge that we change the cover, but my fellow editors and I hardly needed to be persuaded. Our twelve- page cover treatment on East Germany includes a vivid pictorial record of this emotional moment in history and a thoughtful assessment of what these changes may mean for Europe -- and for all of us. We're still giving you the full Wilder story in the Nation section...
Perry then chose an inopportune moment to make his only mistake of the day. Under a heavy rush, the senior quarterback's screen pass was deflected by a Yale lineman and intercepted by linebacker Chris Gaughan at the line of scrimmage--which happened to be the Harvard...
Gore's comment on last moment scoring was an allusion to The Game of 1968, in which Harvard scored 16 points in the final moments to beat Yale...