Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commitments east of Suez would be made "without significant loss of strength." On normal days, 1,200 cables cascade into Foggy Bottom; when things are bubbling, 1,800. They are usually bubbling. "The world is round," says Rusk. "Only one-third of its people are asleep at any given moment. The other two-thirds are awake and probably stirring up mischief somewhere...
...insisted that South Viet Nam was experiencing an "internal revolution," even though North Vietnamese troops were present, just as the U.S. experienced an internal revolution, even though there were "French revolutionary soldiers at Valley Forge." Rusk found that comparison hard to swallow. "I can't identify for a moment," said he, "the purposes of the Hanoi-inspired revolution of the 1960s with the purposes of the American Revolution in the 1770s...
...looked for a moment as if Harold Wilson were about to smother in a Yorkshire pudding of his own making. British political polls had recently recorded an erosion of support for Wilson's Labor government, and things were not improved by the usual irritants of winter. All in all, it was a bad time for a test at the ballot box, but Wilson had called a by-election in the Yorkshire seaport of Hull, where in 1964 the Labor candidate had won by a mere 1,181 votes. Should the Hull seat be lost to the Tories, Wilson...
...fashion editors last week watched Paris designers raising dresses higher and higher, there came a moment when the eyes had to come down. And there, right at floor level, many observers found their news. It was in shoes. Never has high-fashion footwear been so low. When models didn't walk barefoot, they paraded out in flat Mary Janes with straps round the ankle or across the instep. What heels there were, came in the shape of round rhinestone-covered balls or thick Pilgrim squares...
Died. Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones, 66, Tony's father, a wealthy, thrice-married, retired Welsh barrister, who proudly pronounced his commoner son's wedding to Princess Margaret "the most democratic moment I have ever seen"; of cancer; in Caernarvonshire, Wales...