Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...larger student body would bring many problems to Harvard. It would, for instance, mean more laboratory facilities, more teaching fellows. Therefore any change would have to be approved by the Harvard administration. For the moment, Harvard is not in the least bit interested, Mrs. Bunting said...
...Bunting spoke against all of the resolutions, and voted against all except the first, on which she abstained. "The RPC is neither a final answer nor a power committee," she said. "I thought it would be useful, but it wasn't meant for a moment to keep other things from happening...
...startling upset elections of July 1945, when war-weary Britons tossed out Winston Churchill's Tories and gave Labor an overwhelming 146-seat majority in Commons. Frail and diffident, timid in crowds and a mediocre public speaker, he seemed an unlikely leader for such a challenging moment. He surprised everyone by proceeding to direct a "bloodless revolution" the likes of which Britain had not experienced since the Reform Bill of 1832 created the modern Parliament. Attlee's Laborites set up an entire social security system and welfare state in Britain, and joggled the underpinning of Britain...
...exuberance led Lynda Bird Johnson, 23, to her mama's bedroom door at three o'clock that August morning. When Mama wasn't there, she crept into her daddy's bedroom. "Who is it?" asked Lady Bird, waking up with a start, and in a moment the President woke up too. Then, as they guessed what Lynda Bird was driving at, the Johnsons hauled their eldest daughter into bed with them and listened to her tell the news of her decision to marry Chuck Robb. Now the story has been broken in all its homey detail...
Government plans to increase crop yields are based on hopes to change the type of plant harvested. At the moment, Cuba averages 40 tons of cane per acre, while Jamaica, with essentially the same climatic conditions, yields 60 tons an acre. In Hawaii, the figure is 200 tons. The Cuban economic planners are now slowly replacing old cane plants with new ones which yield much more sugar. But this is a slow process because cane lasts for 10 or 15 years and only 10 per cent of the entire crop is replanted each year...