Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palace Hotel, Costa e Silva peered from behind his green-tinted sunglasses while 450 captains of industry pretended that the filet mignon on their plates was the only beef they had with the government. "An unforgettable night," proclaimed the president of the National Confederation of Industries. "A his toric moment," added the president of the National Confederation of Agriculture. "The moral attributes of Your Excellency, Senhor Marshal," said the president of the National Confederation of Industrial Workers, "make of Your Excellency the unquestioned interpreter of the aspirations of the workers, who jubilantly exalt the irreversible resolution of Your Excellency...
...those, like construction workers, whose employment depends on the vagaries of business cycles and white foremen. For retailers of moonshine, the customer turnover is great, the clientele uproarious, the profit margin low, and the danger ever-present that state agents will move in on whatever still happens at the moment to be supplying whiskey houses in the area...
...masses are proclaiming the dignity of the Negro culture as it is, they also recognize that the need for change is the very reason for the conflict: "the thing that keeps us together is the very thing we're trying to eradicate," as one nationalist told me in a moment of candor. The nationalists want their people to have the good life without having to "bleach themselves out," to become bourgeois in order to attain it. "We've been singing and dancing for 400 years, and it's time we built some rockets and ran some businesses," said nationalist leader...
...living as good a yarn as he tells. He has just sold, for about $1,000,000, a cattle ranch in Nevada and published a new book, Unknown Oman. Last week, after a brief cruise in the Greek Isles, he flew to New York on the spur of the moment, went to Texas to dine with Oilman John Mecom, continued on to San Francisco and Honolulu. Next, he contemplates going to Viet Nam, where he is an accredited war correspondent for Scripps-Howard...
...simple task of clamping Agena's tether to Gemini's docking bar is an exhausting struggle. As Gordon attempts to straddle Gemini's nose, cowboy-fashion, he proves unable to assume a stable position. There is every indication that he may be bucked off at any moment...