Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment is not far off when we must act not only in the interest of national finances, but also in thai of the Republican regime. . . . Mob movements threaten to violate the domiciles of the people's representatives. ... If the means now at our disposal are insufficient I will ask for others from...
...last possible moment, still gesticulating. Alcala Zamora signed the church law. Of all the governments that used to acknowledge official allegiance to Rome, only Hungary is left...
...Carotte, who had come to her late in life and unwanted, widening the breach between her and her silent husband. The child was thin, big-eyed, hopelessly sensitive. The ecstasies of childhood, as well as its cruel injustices, its disappointments and aching loneliness, seized him with unusual violence. Brightest moment in Poil de Carotte's summer vacation from boarding school comes when he goes to visit his uncle, who lets him swim in a cold brook and then leads him and his little cousin, wreaths of weeds in their hair, in a wild dance to the music...
...Those Hindu priests said. `Will all orthodox Hindus come forward and receive the sacred food?* I had not realized that they had a ceremony so much like our own sacrament, and there was a moment of terrific suspense, and then a woman from the back of the group said. 'There are no such distinctions here. We are all one and either we all come forward or no one will come forward.' . . . And so in a few minutes, after a consultation of those Hindu priests on that altar rock, the priest came down among us and offered...
...coast of Norway which he was not prepared to navigate. With fuel running low, he picked out a landing spot in an island -Jomfruland-70 mi. southwest of Oslo. There he lost 18 precious hours before getting gasoline from the mainland. Off again, he paused for a brief moment at Oslo, then tore across the Baltic 1,100 mi. to Moscow where he landed three hours ahead of Post & Gatty's time...