Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stop Shooting! Led by Fulbright, several Senators insisted that the U.S. had adopted an "adamant attitude" against a negotiated settlement of the war. Rusk, who might have been forgiven a moment of exasperation at that point, replied levelly: "We have given them practically everything but South Viet Nam in an effort to find a basis for peace. We are not asking them to surrender a thing except their appetite to take over South Viet Nam by force. Now, on that I suggest somebody had better be adamant...
...exuberance. Whether addressing U.S. combat units in Viet Nam or discussing the merits of U.S. tractors with Laotian officials, handing out Senate gallery passes to giggling Pakistani nurses or teaching Thai children to say "O.K." and "Goodbye," Humphrey was on center stage every minute of his trip. His only moment of humiliation came in, of all places, friendly Saigon, where, despite his blandishments and some rafter-ringing hooo-ees, the black Berkshire hogs at an agricultural-experiment station haughtily ignored the Vice President-evidence, no doubt, that the Viet Cong have even infiltrated the porcine population...
...pulled out a great smokestack of a cigar, passed it beneath his nose, pierced one end, lit it, puffed three times, closed his eyes, leaned back and sighed, "Ahhh, good!" Basking in a lazy curl of smoke, he mused: "At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each...
...Friedan says most American women are "silly," but complains that their status as "a disadvantaged majority" is unjustified. One moment she denies any specific tyranny of women by men, but then agrees with the other panelist who wants "women to organize, confront their male brethern, and continue to run the country (as they do now) under a nominal male power structure...
More than dinners and sinecures, Giuseppe needs an audience to applaud his artistry. In a moment of pride, he confesses all to his bishop-and is immensely gratified by the sensation he creates. At the last, touched (as the real Vella was not) by considerations of justice and truth, he placidly accepts imprisonment...