Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the moment of the fire, officials clamped a hermetic lid on the investigation. The inevitable result was a macabre harvest of reportorial speculation about the astronauts' last seconds. Quoting an unidentified "official source," the New York Times said that the three had suffered horribly as the fire spread: that they shrieked repeatedly, pleading for help; that they died scrabbling frantically at the sealed hatch cover of the capsule, leaving shreds of flesh on the metal; and that their bodies were incinerated until little more than bones remained...
...following are excerpts from Daniel P. Moynihan's analysis of the coming of age of the civil rights movement. The original appears in this month's COMMENTARY as "The President and the Negro: The Moment Lost...
...President, and the members of their staffs who would accept or reject its proposals and implications. A hundred copies were produced, but with on expectation of using even that few. The objectives of the report were twofold. First: to argue the need for seizing the opportunity of the moment to make the kind of commitment the President did in fact subsequently make. Second: to urge consideration of a new and different kind of policy, in addition to the more familiar ones--namely, a national family policy...
...allowance for broken families, the AFDC program. It was past time we came to our senses on the subject, and stopped penalizing families with a father in the home. In that far-off spring of 1965 it appeared we might. It was absurd to think that such a precious moment of legislative opportunity would pass without some measure of income redistribution. A family allowance was surely the most promising candidate. It would have cost $5 to $10 billion per year according to the scheme adopted but we had the money. To have enacted it would have been a first step...
Watts also threw off the White House, which found the moment for the conference "To Fulfill These Rights" almost upon it, but with no adequate preparations for a full-scale meeting. It was decided to hold first a small planning session. This met in November in an atmosphere of near frenzy over the report, which was all the militants seemed able to think of: indeed, at one of the plenary sessions the secretary to the conference felt called on to announce, "There is no such person as Daniel P. Moynihan...