Word: moment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dumbstruck - "Did all the Blackwells think Charlie was incompetent and foolish? Did everyone?" She reflexively rises to his defense. "Charlie wasn't the runt of the litter," she tells herself. "He wasn't an idiot." Not an idiot, surely, but a President of the United States? At the very moment that Alice realizes how the world sees her Prince Charming, Charlie suddenly gets his act together - under her threat of divorce. He is born again as a Christian and becomes the front man for a consortium of businessmen who buy the local baseball team. He is elected governor of Wisconsin...
...Squeezed into the last minutes before prime time began, Bush used his moment - less than half as long as Lieberman's - to vouch for McCain as "ready to lead this nation." He, too, touched on the theme of McCain's resilience: "If the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what's best for his country, you can be sure the Angry Left never will." And he nodded to the well-known fact that he and McCain have never liked each other: "He's not afraid to tell you when he disagrees. Believe me - I know...
...second group is more amorphous; call them the Coalition of the Flabbergasted. From the moment John McCain announced his choice of the rookie governor of a remote state as his running mate, they have generated a drumbeat of skepticism so intense that Palin has nowhere to go but up. Politicians spend a lot of time playing the expectations game, but in this case Palin may win by forfeit, because her opponents have set the bar somewhere around her shins...
...from banner-waving GOP social conservative to maverick reformer may simply be about good timing. It's what former journalist Bill McAllister, who now works for Palin's press staff, used to call "Sarah-dipity" - that uncanny gift of knowing exactly what voters are looking for at a particular moment. And, of course, the political will to give them what they want. (See photos of Sarah Palin here...
...Mirren, who starred in the television police drama Prime Suspect as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, said that a rape would occur if a woman, voluntarily engaging in sexual activity, said "no" at the last moment. But, she added, "I don't think she can have a man into court under those circumstances...