Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Boston immigration station and booked him for deportation to Italy because he had been twice convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude. He was allowed 90 days freedom if he could raise $1,000 bail. Expecting his wife Rose to bring the bail at any moment, he refused to take off his coat and hat, refused to eat lunch. His next meal, he insisted, was going to be chicken with rice, and he was going to spend the night with his wife at Boston's best hotel. When she failed to appear with the bail he declared...
...minute or two," reported he, "and realized that it was coming straight at me. I changed my course and put on speed, but it looked like it would strike the plane in spite of all I could do. I banked sharply to the right and at about the same moment the meteor burned out and disappeared. . . . At the time it reached the altitude at which I was flying, it was just a glowing red ball...
Because Shore's presence would increase the gate, he was allowed to play last week. Before the game, which Toronto won handily, 7 goals to 3, he and Bailey shook hands, chatted for a moment at the centre of the rink. Shore, once the most unpopular player in the league, was thereafter cheered for every play he made...
...from England two months ago by Stanley Halle of Chappaqua, N. Y. Last week lay spectators admired the immense dignity, weighty as a Newfoundland's, with which she comported herself in the ring. But Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston did not win their hearts until, at the very moment when Judge Jarrett was naming her U. S. Dog of the Year, she slipped her leash and frisked across the ring as saucily as though her name were...
...power. Control of the press and the radio, from which are derived control of men and industry, has become a far more facile instrument of power than divine right. Russia is perfecting her technique for mass anesthetisation; Hitler is applying the social chloroform of organized propaganda at this very moment. Every means of intellectual expression at once falls to the purpose of perpetuating the intelligent regime. That in itself should give unlimited life to any dictatorship strong enough to weather its own adolescence, since an opposition without a voice is as inaudible as the underworld and can be treated...