Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the moment Lyndon Johnson dropped out of the presidential race, there was little doubt that Hubert Humphrey would claim the right of succession. Last week the Vice President with held his formal declaration for tactical reasons, but made clear to the nation that he was not only a candidate for the Democratic nomination, but also a most formidable...
...always in the war when the Communists do not choose to fight, the allies for the moment could find few of the enemy. The explanation lay neither in a purposeful de-escalation by Hanoi to abet peace talks nor the possibility that the Communist forces were so shattered by their recent losses that they could not fight at all. Instead, there was every indication that the Communists were simply hiding out while they got resupplied for fresh offensives. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail poured a steady stream of North Vietnamese trucks, headlights brazenly ablaze in the night. The infiltration...
...martyr. In Newsday, Frank Lynn recalled "two terrifying hours" in Philadelphia, Miss., site of the slaying of the three civil rights workers, when King led 200 marchers through the streets. Cursed, clubbed, spat on by vicious whites unrestrained by police, King "refused to bow to the passion of the moment" and continued to march without faltering or fighting back...
...they feel disturbing tugs toward the world outside-toward the everyday pleasures of walking in the forest or smiling once more at Rachel, the hotel-keeper's daughter. It is as if what keeps security in also keeps the very flavor of life out. And so, at the moment they discover their sanctuary, Agnon's characters find themselves in a new exile...
Second, the Union has not solved the question of membership. There is, at the moment, no formal membership in the Union, and it now seems unlikely that a form of membership will be settled. The trouble is that with no program for action and no membership criteria, the Union has alienated no one-but neither has it attracted anyone. It remains an amorphous body, which has acquitted itself well in the limited area of draft counselling, but which has left its more important work-the creation of a unified and politically effective antidraft movement, still...