Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same at "reunions" as it did in the woods, that the people who'd felt like soulmates at summer camp had less to say to each other when united at a pizza place in October. This doesn't undermine the intensity and reality of those connections in the moment--in a way it makes them and their moment more wonderfully singular--but it does provide a sobering glimpse of the great big truth that you can't go back again. So I wondered, will we ever be able to reclaim even a little bit of what was such a huge...
...finalists felt disbelief, pride, even ecstasy--they had made it through the preliminary round of senior Class Marshal elections, and for them, it was a moment to relish...
...captain Beth Zotter's streak of near misses ended at the best possible moment on Saturday afternoon. Her game-winning goal in sudden-death overtime propelled the Harvard women's soccer team (5-1-1, 3-0 Ivy) to a 2-1 victory over up-and-coming Ivy League rival Penn...
...does Bradley mark this euphoric moment? Half an hour after his big speech--an act of enormous extroversion that required him to brag about his athleticism, discipline and small-town purity--he is visibly withdrawing, pulling back into himself. Folded into a chair on the stage in the packed and jubilant Crystal City High School gym, the scene of his earliest hoop glory, he's listening to old friends extol his essential goodness, but he's looking bored and distracted one minute, uncomfortable the next: it's hard for him to cede control of his own story. A black Little...
...stereo played music from the Harvard Glee Club, the group--which included Bunting Fellowship Program Director Rita Nakashima Brock--raised glasses of champagne at the precise moment of transition. Metzger rang an antique schoolhouse bell that belonged to his grandfather...