Word: momental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour and a half later, he was at London Airport, shaking hands with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In an off-the-cuff arrival speech that brought murmurs of appreciation from the crowd, the President said: "I must say my deepest reaction and sentiment at this moment is that of extraordinary pleasure and true enjoyment for being back once again in this land which I have learned so much to love." And as he rode into town with Macmillan, the President saw about him a London that would not change-jodhpur-clad girls riding in Rotten Row; jocular...
...blistering attacks on "rightist opportunists," i.e., Communist officials who had protested that the scheduled leap forward was too far and too fast. Such opportunists, said the party, "are singing the same tune as the internal and external enemies who slander us," and they are "the main danger of the moment." Thus, if heads rolled in China for a colossal doctrinaire failure, they would, typically, be the heads of men who tried desperately to stave off the flop of the leap forward, not those who obstinately insisted...
...Binoculars, the new military campaign to crush the rebels, was going slowly. Within the week President Eisenhower would arrive to hear what, if any, new solution De Gaulle had to settle the five-year war. "A climate of expectancy and uncertainty mixed with apprehension reigns," reported Le Monde. "The moment is coming when the game is either lost...
...orbit. He took first-class honors in physics at London University, headed the British Interplanetary Society, now, at 41, turns out space gas between star-watching and undersea-photography expeditions to the far ends of the earth. He sounds thoroughly convincing when he writes, at a moment of high dramatic intensity (a star is blowing up): "Those last exposures did it! ... They show the gaseous shell expanding round the nova. And the speed agrees with your Doppler shifts." His characters may seem as standard as those in any war film (his monsters, though, are quite human), but most science-fiction...
...beneath the floorboards of a barn while German troops clomped about up above. He narrowly missed recapture when he joined in an astonishing attempt at a mass breakout to British lines by 110 men, which German patrols mopped up. Two more attempts failed; he had one desperate but exhilarating moment when he wheeled his bicycle through a crowd of German troops that had "the stale, panicky smell of troops on the run." Finally, he made it by canoe through the labyrinthine Biesbosch marshes and back to what he calls "this most personal...