Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compensation for $72 million in American properties that the Communists nationalized in 1948. At week's end, the Dubček regime rebuffed the offer of new talks, attacking as "irresponsible" a compromise that the U.S. has proposed. It thus served notice that it is not, at the moment, in any hurry to draw closer...
Visitors are always told to keep back from the cages, but Britain's Prince Philip was too curious to be cautious. He pressed up close to the bar for a good look at the orangutans during his visit to the London Zoo. At that precise moment, one of the apes-Napoleon by name-relieved himself in the direction of His Royal Highness. Later, at a luncheon for the Royal Zoological Society, Philip apologized for "any faint whiff of animal which might be emanating from my end of the room. We have just been visiting some orangutans," said...
...This is a proud moment," the President said at the inauguration. He would not go so far as to say he felt like a proud father (Lady Bird had said "that would be boastful"), or grandfather ("some people think I already talk too much about my grandson"). Instead he billed himself as "a proud uncle." Explained L.B.J.: "You all know how an uncle is. He doesn't visit often, but he likes relations to do well. I won't be remembered as a patron of the arts, but I should be delighted to be known as an uncle...
...pouty lips nurse the huge cigar; the gruff, lisping voice rasps out even cadences like waves beating on the shore. Many of the words he is given to say, however, seem in closer accord with der Führer Prinzip than with bluff British pragmatism. Never for a moment is the playgoer unaware that this is a Teutonic Churchill and that Hochhuth is still playing the blame game-not so much to prod the consciences of other men as to slough off on them part of the German burden of guilt for the holocausts of war and genocide...
...Archbishop of Canterbury. Morton taunts Endecott with this promise of lost authority, and suddenly the Governor becomes as steely as his armor. Delivering a flaming polemic against the King, he sunders his own flagstaff and tromps the red-crossed flag of England underfoot. It is the most powerful moment of the evening and brings to vivid life D. H. Lawrence's comment that Amer ica was born in "black revulsion." Black with wrath, Endecott orders Merry Mount burned to the ground and the Indians massacred. The historical moment is a century and a half before the American Revolution...