Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood up. Joe Louis (pronounced Lewis) of Detroit, whose exploits in the past year have made him the hero of as lively a ballyhoo as U. S. sports-pages have ever seen, was now about to engage the most dangerous adversary of his career, Brobdingnagian Primo Carnera. For a moment the two men stood with their seconds at the centre of the ring. Swarthy Carnera looked darker than khaki-colored Louis. Then the bell rang and the fight began...
...sixth. Bland, graceful, incorrigibly calm, Louis stalked Carnera across the ring, drove a right to his jaw. Carnera fell, dragged himself up, crashed down again, with another right to the jaw. Louis, an amazingly motionless figure, outlined against the ring lights, leaned on the ropes for a moment. When Carnera was on his feet again, Louis moved in, landed a crashing left. As Carnera got up for the third time, he had just presence of mind enough left to turn toward the referee before Louis had time to hit him again. Referee Arthur Donovan stepped between the fighters...
...cruelly perceptive remark we might have made, if we had just been a little quicker. How it would have pierced and hurt, how it would have silenced some parish pest! Unfortunately, there have been times when the poisonous dart lay ready to our tongue at the needful moment, and we have loosed it sharp and straight at some man's folly-but it hit his heart. It struck in those mysterious depths where each man tries to maintain a little shy and secret self-respect...
...Haifa sailed from Brindisi and, as one car raced across France toward the port, the other was smashed by a truck in Lyon. The cars became separated, the drivers got lost, then forgot where they had agreed to meet. But the whole party caught the boat at the last moment and the two cars were hoisted aboard...
Under NRA, shopkeepers were not supposed to sell goods at less than cost. The moment the Blue Eagle was struck down, some Los Angeles grocers began offering "loss leaders" at 25% or more below cost. Their more conservative competitors called protest meetings, loudly thumped for a continuance of "fair practices." The cut-raters stood their ground and all grocery prices began...