Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House used the announcement to send some flowers to Capitol Hill as well. Clinton's political advisers are keenly aware that the President's fate is much more a matter of politics than of law at this point. The moment Democrats begin abandoning him is the moment Clinton's future in office is in doubt. It is a measure of how worried Clinton was that he picked up the phone that afternoon and called one of his few friends in the House, Californian Vic Fazio, to tell him he was planning to testify and to find out whether...
With Shepard's death, time seemed less elastic than we thought it was. The old outleaping moment of the race to the moon, science and technology's heroic counterpoint to the '60s' rage and mess, was now, as embodied in the first young all-American leaper, dead of leukemia at the age of 74. You may rescind the laws of gravity but not of mortality...
...space agenda remains splendid though underfunded. If the leading edge of popular curiosity trends for the moment away from space and toward cloning, we may sense that in the transition the future has grown a little retrograde, at least from a moral and theological point of view. As the American space program began in the '50s, rockets routinely exploded on the launch pad and collapsed into their own ruins like defunct Las Vegas casinos. The nation's leading rocketmeister was the boy wonder of Peenemunde, Wernher von Braun, inventor of Hitler's Vengeance Rocket...
...Iranian test gives conservatives in Congress a new argument for deployment of ballistic-missile defenses to protect U.S. troops in the Middle East. For the moment, though, the White House won't drop its effort to improve ties with Iran. Sending friendly signals to President Khatami is even more important now--"to get Iran to stop developing a ballistic-missile program," a senior Clinton aide insists. Perhaps, but Khatami is not the one with his finger on the launch button...
...child, and who was more beguiling than Shari Lewis, a woman with a demure sock named Lamb Chop (and two other socks named Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy)? Now, that was high-concept. Shari Lewis, who died Sunday of cancer in Los Angeles, was loved by kids from the moment she and her knitted friends first appeared on "Captain Kangaroo" in the '50s until 1963, when puppet-based children's programming gave way to the comic psychedelics of cartoons. Those same kids loved her when she came back in 1992, this time to PBS, and they plopped their own children...