Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about national service, and one of the things that we discovered, and other polls have shown this, too, is that, in fact, volunteering is down as a result of the recession, and civic participation is down. And when we did that last year it was a kind of great moment for us, and since then, the economy has gone down. I'm wondering what you make of that and what you think the significance of that is for national service. The President: Well, I think that people are understandably anxious right now and feeling insecure economically. They are worried about...
...think that how we sustain that is a challenge. How do you - a campaign is a finite moment in time with a very clear objective. Sustaining that so that it now moves forward in ways that aren't as high-profile and aren't - where it's not surrounded by balloons and confetti but has to do more with just the day-to-day work of mentoring a kid or planting a garden - that's I think the challenge that both of us are continually thinking about...
...just dismissed conservative claims that illegal immigrants would be able to take advantage of health-care reform, was taken aback. He looked to his left, adjusted his arm, part nervous twitch, part macho posturing, and shot back at Wilson, "That's not true." And there, for a moment, the nation watched two men, elected to lead, call each other the worst thing in politics - dishonorable deceivers. (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...moment Wilson exploded, the outburst seemed like an assault on the President. Soon afterward, it was clear that it had been a gift. Wilson had, in an emotional expression, proven Obama's point: the summer of town halls had been less a discussion than a circus, a forum where misinformation was vindicated by passion, where disrespect was elevated to a virtue. Now the circus had come inside Congress...
...face with an ugly edge of Australian society. Newly arrived from his native India, Unni was chatting with a friend at the local train station when a stranger came up to them and snarled, "Why don't you f___ing speak English?" Seven years later, Unni recalls the moment with some bemusement. "The funny thing was that we were actually speaking English, with a few words of Hindi here and there...