Word: momentous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment it seemed that this last scene would be too much for him. Ragged banners still flew in Albany, their legends, "Smith for President," mocked and cancelled by wind and sleet. Yet the Albanians were out to meet him in cheering, bomb-bursting thousands. Mayor John Boyd Thacher insisted on taking his arm through the crush, just as on triumphal occasions when the Brown Derby used to return as Governor-re-elect. Now he was President-reject...
...case you do it by severing the diseased portion from the body. In the other you do it by severing from the soul the body that has become an instrument of torture to it. . . . Suppose, for instance, that I find my daughter-whose wish at the moment I have no means of ascertaining-is threatened with violation and there is no way by which I can save her. Then it would be the purest form of ahimsa on my part to put an end to her life and surrender myself to the fury of the incensed ruffian...
Puzzled Hindus pondered whether it is now safe to tread upon a ladybug-whose wish at the moment one has no means of ascertaining-would she seem menaced with assault...
There was but the slightest quiver in the Eastern part of Sicily one day last week. The silvery olive trees rustled for a moment although there was no wind. By the eastern coast, the Mediterranean waters gulped uneasily...
Mascali was most certainly the town which first would be obliterated. Here young peasant maids crossed themselves, paused a moment at the churches. Grandmothers, rich in ancient lore, retold tales. Enceladus, the Titan, was buried under Etna when he had dared to defy Zeus. Now and again he stirred in discomfort or anger. Hephaestus, god of fire and the metallic arts, had a smithy in Etna. He was fashioning terrible Olympian swords which his journeymen, the Cyclops, would deliver...