Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tribute to the mental toughness of the defense that there was no letdown as the Harvard turnovers frequently forced the defense to rush back onto field with only a moment's rest...
...moment the International Mission Board reflected on its own actions--it might realize the darkness in its heart. Maybe I should visit them on Dec. 25 at their Virginia headquarters to explain it to them...
...last six or eight weeks," he said, "I've had a learning experience." Make that a near-death experience--that vertiginous moment when a politician looks into the near future, sees himself writing his memoirs and responds with a frenzied attempt to connect. In the last days of the 1992 campaign, President Bush had that kind of revelation and jetted around the country, waving his arms and shouting himself hoarse. Gore's memento mori has come earlier in the cycle, so unlike Bush, he has time to come down from his adrenaline rush and make his case in a calmer...
Rosen said that in a moment of confusion, one HUPD officer chased Bean yelling, "Where do you think you're going...
...this is gradually what happens as Halder finds himself first trying to rationalize euthanasia as a compassionate act toward the sick and deformed, then the bonfire of the books, Krystal Nacht, and in what proves to be the play's most shocking (if somewhat farfetched) moment, Auschwitz. As Halder's rationalizations become increasingly strained and desperate, Hitler assumes a more seductive tone in Halder's mind, and his image is accompanied by popular, catchy drinking songs...