Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...based U.S. civilians, half of whom clustered on the campus of the American University. Each carried only one 44-Ib. bag, plus two blankets and 24 hours' worth of food. Many women showed up carrying small dogs in large handbags. With the city in blackout, there was a moment of near panic when saboteurs blew up a Shell Oil storage tank several miles away. In the guttering glare of flames that shot hundreds of feet into the air, there was fear that Israeli bombers might strike, but husbands calmed wives, wives calmed children and children calmed dogs. Teen-agers...
...fact, play important roles for a time in such anti-interventionist organizations as the American Independence League (Peabody for example) -- and in such oppositelyminded groups as the Student Defense League (Thomas Winship, for example). It was not they that faltered; it was the organization and the moment...
...have a way of getting away from the stifling bureaucracy at all. Those who might not otherwise be able to fill a knowledge gap crucial to future service. Or those who might not stay alive politically or find that outside job without a place to pause for a moment to decide what to do next...
...range of official positions. But I am thinking of those men who had that same potential for high calibre of public service who were never known, were never tapped, who were wasted, in effect, in some cases because they didn't get the enabling, helping hand at the key moment along the way. This, in my view, is what the Fellowship program at the Institute of Politics is principally about...
Despite a slight recession and an imbalance of payments-difficulties common to many Western lands at the moment-Finland now enjoys one of the world's highest standards of living. The Finn's capitalist welfare state gives him six weeks' vacation, during which he deserts the city for his cottage on one of the country's 60,000 lakes. There he swims, sails, fishes and plays pesäpallo-an imported variation of baseball. And he reads; Finns buy more books per capita than any other nation...