Word: moment
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...genius at wasting his genius. He's a devoted practitioner of pride, lust and avarice, to name the fanciest of your deadly sins. This is a man who has got it all: wealth, power, glamour, notoriety and more women than he can shake his stick at. At the very moment he's supposed to be receiving an award at a Las Vegas convention, he's actually at the craps tables surrounded by his favorite pets, big money and fast women - both endlessly duplicable, both instantly disposable. It's all booty...
...When Losing Which is an ironic comment, to say the least, since Harold McEwen Ickes has done so much over the past 30 years to make this moment possible. Son of an irascible Franklin Delano Roosevelt Cabinet member (whose nickname was the Old Curmudgeon), the younger Ickes was raised in the Washington bubble of his time--but he migrated West, worked as a cowboy on a ranch in Northern California and harbored little interest in the kind of work done by his father, who died when the boy was 12. That changed in the summer of 1964, after graduating from...
...Knowing English is important—some businesses won’t hire you unless you speak it,” she said. “I think my defining moment was when I realized that I can and want to help [my country], and seeing how just a couple hours a week could change how far someone would go in life...
...remember the day you got your acceptance letter from Harvard by e-mail, proudly declaring you an official member of the newest incoming class. Not only were you suddenly a college student after four long years in secondary-school purgatory: You were a Harvard student! For that brief moment, the modesty that you exuded as you waited nervously for that letter to arrive flew out the window, along with the inferior acceptance letters of Princeton and Yale. For a split second, you felt like...
...Poster-Remover is unexpressive. He mechanically begins to tear down poster after poster. Students flock about him like flies on a carcass, all wriggling to get a choice spot. For a moment, his face flickers with annoyance as unwashed arms graze his cheeks...