Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lights of Westerly, R.I., would ordinarily have been visible to the left, and the porkchop-shaped outline of Block Island should have been off to the right. Kennedy banked the plane, quickly passed the island and found himself, at last, over utterly open ocean. It was at this moment, according to radar records, that the plane, which had been holding steady at 5,600 ft., suddenly began to descend at about 700 ft. per min. That's not emergency speed for this single-engine aircraft, but it is quicker than normal...
...could just see this was a father-son relationship," said Senator Alan Simpson. "I'm sure it's ripped the very fabric of Ted's life." John was the little boy Ted imagined could grow up to be President. He'd taken John under his wing from the moment his father was killed, staying in the White House after the Kings and Prime Ministers and generals had left, to celebrate John's third birthday. He had led the singing of Heart of My Heart late into the night...
...Caroline was the focus of the service's most wrenching moment. Ted came close to breaking down when he reached the part in his eulogy that celebrated the closeness between her and John, the brother who, even as a grownup, would reach out naturally to grab his sister's hand. "He especially cherished his sister Caroline," Ted said in his eulogy, his voice trembling, "celebrated her brilliance and took strength and joy from their lifelong mutual-admiration society." Caroline stood up to hug her uncle as he descended from the pulpit...
...stock market rise 500% in the 1980s, the country that experienced some of the world's fastest economic growth from 1949 to 1991, the land where "better, faster, cooler" products are a national obsession. But frankly, the Japanese are not enjoying the financial ride they are on at this moment. Since the start of the year, Japan's Nikkei index has gone up nearly 30%. (In the U.S., the Dow has risen 19%.) The country's economy, which had been given up for dead by most of the world's leading economists, astonished analysts with a first-quarter annualized growth...
...that the decision to pick up the latest profile of Brad and Jennifer before, say, sitting down with the latest from Alice Munro is for many of us one fraught with precious little hesitation. That said, however, the last summer of the millennium seems to be just the wrong moment to adopt a gloomy attitude toward the literary form championed by the likes of Sherwood Anderson and John Cheever, Raymond Carver and Ann Beattie...