Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Big money, beautiful women and sudden death await an ignorant peasant (played by Spain's Matador Miguel Mateo) in an angry, bloody drama about the bullring...
...crisp, clear air 33,000 ft. over Pennsylvania, United Airlines Pilot Dale Chapman blinked in disbelief. There, one moment, were the myriad lights of Manhattan winking in the distance like diamonds on a jeweler's velvet cloth. An instant later, there was only blackness. "The whole city of New York was missing," marveled Chapman. "It looked like the end of the world...
...experience that no book that children like is ever for children." Her commitment to childhood reveals itself in her devotion to fable and legends, to the elemental thought of the east, to all that is strange, new, and quaint, and to old customs--especially Christmas, childhood's most glorious moment. Just before I left she typed out a Christmas poem and gave...
Halakah & Aggadah. There is no easy entrance to the Talmud's world. It begins with a question: "From which moment on may one recite the Shema [a prayer based on passages from Deuteronomy and Numbers] in the evening?" Then it plunges abruptly into page after crowded page of rabbinical answers, further questions, disputations. The comments themselves are of two kinds: halakah, or interpretation of the law, and aggadah, meaning sayings, parables, narratives or proverbs with a moral significance. The two kinds of commentary are hopelessly, sometimes humorously, interwoven. Argument is seldom pursued to a logical conclusion. In the midst...
...married, and a fa ther. He is a steady wage earner with a $6,092-a-year income. He is also in debt (to the tune of $513) and pressed by his creditors. He is a typical customer who has come to solve his problems -at least for the moment - by borrowing from the Household Finance Corp., the oldest and largest of the nation's thriv- ing small-loan companies...