Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about to sign some papers, he writes, "I experienced a strange although not alarming feeling of dizziness. Since the sensation lasted only a moment, I reached for another paper. Suddenly I became frustrated. It was difficult for me to take hold of the first paper on the pile. I found that the words on it seemed literally to run off the top of the page. Now more than a little bewildered, I dropped the pen. Failing in two or three attempts to pick it up, I decided to get to my feet, and at once found I had to catch...
...sake of doing something." He believes that U.S. foreign policy should stress reliability, not experimentation. "The United States has too much mass and momentum to be a hummingbird, darting in and out of alluring blossoms to see what nectar can be had for the whims of the moment," he argues. "We owe it to ourselves as well as to the rest of the world to remain steady on course...
...sickening seconds before the train ground to a stop, a second coach jumped the track, then a third. For a moment, beneath the dust raised by the wreck, an eerie silence reigned, punctuated only by the screams of the wounded trapped in the shattered cars. Along the track lay bodies, some in piles, some flung as far as 350 feet away. In all, 86 were killed, some 200 seriously injured...
...moment, Garcia-Godoy is determined to do the job of "reconciliation" his way-with one hand on his hot line to the U.S. 82nd Airborne...
Almost Unbearable. The moment that Kubitschek chose to return was precisely when the government was engaged in its first test of popularity since Brazil's military seized power early last year. The day before he arrived, 9,000,000 Brazilians in eleven of the country's 22 states had gone to the polls to vote for new Governors. In those elections, the government discovered that it had failed to win substantial popular support in spite-or because-of all its tough efforts to root out Communism and corruption. The big winner was the P.S.D. Party of Kubitschek...