Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past the cutlery counter in a Kress 5-10-25? store on 125th Street . Into Lino Rivera's kinky, stocking-capped head popped the notion of stealing a penknife to match his pen & pencil set at home. Into the pocket of Lino Rivera's leather coat a moment later popped the 10? knife...
...unable to absolve Rear Admiral Sidney Bailey from all blame. He adopted an unusual procedure in directing the Hood and Renown to steer definite courses so close. ... It was incumbent on him at the proper moment to make a further signal to re-form his squadron...
Referring to the visit of himself and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval to London two months ago, the Premier continued: "We outlined a preventive policy ... to resume at Geneva the discussion of disarmament, and it is at this moment that Germany chooses to declare that she is threatened! By whom can she imagine she is threatened? . . " A .travesty of Truth! ... A denial of law and justice. . . . France hates...
...professional clappers. Their Leader, one Harold Lodovichetti, was melancholy. Having inherited his job from his father. Claqueur Lodovichetti has trained his men not only to promote enthusiasm at the right time but also to curb it. An inexperienced operagoer gets a resounding hiss if he applauds at a wrong moment. If the Claque happens to be standing behind him, he may be fairly deafened when the cued moment comes...
...expedition set out from Addis Ababa in March 1928, reached its destination three and a half months later. The Danakils, especially those who had no feathers in their hair, gave them many an anxious moment. (A feather stuck in a Danakil topknot shows that a year has not elapsed since he killed a man.) Three of the expedition's carriers strayed too far from camp, never came back. Hottest day's temperature recorded was 168°F. Even in the shade it was unwise to touch a rifle-barrel. Because the temperature of the human body is only...