Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chet Bowles (John Kennedy's chief talent searcher) offered me two jobs in 1961, Ambassador to Japan or Under Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs," he explained. "I turned down the second without a moment's hesitation. As Under-Secretary, I would have been doing nothing in depth -- just fighting hundreds of brushfires...
...crucial executive function of charting a clear course for the future. One top economist complains that Johnson's close-to-the-vest method of operation, perfected during 24 years in Congress, has left major institutions stumbling around in the dark on vital policy decisions until the last possible moment...
Over the last four years these five, with additional contributors joining in, have had various successes in both the mile and two-mile relays. At this moment the spotlight is on the quartet that set the mark in the longer distance against B.U. Tuesday night. This group is anchored by William Burns, alternately referred to as "Trey," "George," or "Bullet," a soft-spoken Baltimorian who grew up idolizing Villanova's Davie Patrick. He coasted home Tuesday with a 1:58 split, two seconds slower than both Dave McKelvey and Jeff Huvelle, who often run identical times in the event they...
Saturday's atmosphere of refined Tuckertown technology, however, was broken by a sad moment of introspection. A conductor was demolished: "You've get cars strewn all over the tracks--just look at yourself." A broken man, he replied with a whine, "I can't even find myself...
These burlesque-house Lenins get their hour in court before a puppet-like tribunal of military robots-and they get their moment before a firing squad No one in the play escapes Ghelderode's derisory censure except Pantagleize, whom he sees as a questing saint, "bound to Parsifal by purity, and to Don Quixote by courage and holy madness. And if he dies, it is because particularly in our time the Innocents must be slaughtered: that has been the law since the time of Jesus...