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Word: momental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dyke Benjamin won two exciting battles with Cornell distance runners to lead the Crimson's romp. In the mile, Arnold Cummins of Cornell passed Benjamin with a lap to go, and for a moment it seemed he might outrun the Crimson ace. But Benjamin countered with a devastating kick and beat Cummins to the tape by five yards...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Squad Beats Penn, Cornell By Large Margins in Triangulars | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...Help Me!" Mack Charles Parker, 23, a truck driver scheduled to go on trial in a few days for the rape of a 24-year-old white woman last February, leaped from his bunk, pulled on his pants, made for the shower. For a moment the men fumbled with the key, then opened the cell door and rushed in. "Get him! Get him!" one man snarled. They swarmed all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Lynch Law | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...printers scored their two runs in the ninth when Call, who spun a no-hitter, walked five men to give the luckless CPC its only bright moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Tops Printers, 23-2 | 4/28/1959 | See Source »

...Arab technicians who gathered in Cairo would have to be taken more and more into account as the years go by, but at the moment they are in no position to make everyone else jump to their tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Oil Politics | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...live scene in which an American judge (Claude Rains) faces the Nazi jurist (Paul Lukas) whom he has sentenced to life imprisonment. "How in the name of God," asks Rains, "can you ask me to understand the extermination of men, women and innocent children in ______?" For an odd moment the sound went off. Rains's lips moved, but no words came. The missing words: "gas ovens." The show's sponsor, who insisted on the fadeout in sound: the American Gas Association, which supplies some 95% of the gas used in U.S. kitchen ranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Moment of Silence | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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