Word: momentousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turning into a truly shallow and pathetic person. The proof? Ask me to name the most important moment in my life this past year, and I answer without hesitation: getting high-speed access to the Internet at home. It happened two weeks ago, and I'm still faint with excitement. I feel like getting bumper stickers printed up: ASK ME ABOUT MY CABLE MODEM! For months, years even, I've been stalking my local phone and cable monopolies, only to be told that broadband access to the Net wasn't yet available on my block. The phone company's offering...
...into politics in the first place. "You live for that kind of story on the trail," Bradley said. So I told him one about the immigrant bellboy named Juan Romero who cradled a dying Bobby Kennedy in his arms--a few miles from where we were at that very moment--and shoved his rosary beads into Kennedy's hands on the night of the 1968 assassination. I told Bradley the former bellboy says he's been waiting for another Kennedy ever since...
...delay in attacking the gunmen? Chaos played a big part. From the moment of the first report of gunshots at Columbine, SWAT-team members raced in from every direction, some without their equipment, some in jeans and T shirts, just trying to get there quickly. They had only two Plexiglas ballistic shields among them. As Manwaring dressed in his bulletproof gear, he says, he asked several kids to draw on notebook paper whatever they could remember of the layout of the sprawling, 250,000-sq.-ft. school. But the kids were so upset that they were not even sure which...
...smirk is much more harmful now that it's been captured on tape. (Imagine if we had footage of Forbes eating caviar or McCain losing his cool.) The most telling moment in last Monday's debate grew out of Bush's earlier assertion that he was reading a biography of Dean Acheson. You might have thought he would then take the time to skim the dust jacket, at least. When CNN's Judy Woodruff asked what he had learned from Acheson, Bush neither placed the former Secretary of State in an Administration or with a policy, but blithely clutched...
...decide to play, that we rarely know when the announcements will be made--these are closely guarded knightings--and the move, while swift on the upside, can be just as death-defying the day after admission. Yahoo, which traded millions upon millions of shares at $348 at the moment of admission at 4:01, sank rapidly to $311 the next day before stabilizing and ending the week...