Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor was away. The plane took longer than expected to get to Port Stanley. And at the last moment, somebody remembered that there was no airstrip anywhere in the islands. So the terrified pilot had to do his best in the mud of a seldom used race track. When the shaken conspirators emerged from the plane, they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of curious islanders, none of whom spoke enough Spanish to understand that they had been conquered by the Argentines...
Until the moment of revelation, in fact, Kamensky remains a pale figure, repeatedly upstaged by other characters and by Dame Rebecca herself, whose keen eye for detail alights frequently on the tableaux of fin-de-siecle Europe and the Byzantine complexities of expatriate Russian life...
Darrow put Lieut. Massie on the stand to testify that he had leveled a loaded pistol at Kahahawai and had then blacked out. A defense psychiatrist explained that, at the moment, the lieutenant was "chemically" insane. To nearly everyone's consternation, the jury found Massie, Mrs. Fortescue and their two helpers guilty of manslaughter. Under territorial law, that gave the judge no option but to sentence them to ten years. But a wave of public outrage had overwhelmed the White House on Massie's behalf. Hawaii's Territorial Governor Lawrence Judd got his orders from President Hoover...
...Lyndon Johnson has produced a new brand of foreign policy. The President surrenders to the political considerations of the moment, throwing into Vietnam the troops or bombs necessary to temporarily lift his position in the polls. Actions are then fitted to a vague concept of political necessity, and policy to the steps--however unwise--that have already been taken...
True, there is discontent among the electorate with President Johnson and with his Vietnam policies. But no precise and intellectually honest stand on the war can hope to capture the whole of an imprecise spectrum of discontent. Vietnam, for the moment, demands a degree of dishonesty from all congressional candidates who hope to be elected--either they must consciously de-emphasize an issue they know to be paramount, or they must adopt an inconsistent and therefore dishonest stand designed to please all comers...