Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offers start pouring in on a presidential assistant from the moment he begins looking restless. Larry O'Brien, who was openly eager to quit as Lyndon Johnson's Capitol Hill strategist before he was appointed Postmaster General, had any number of offers from private business at salaries up to $100,000 a year. Though U.S. publishers and big industrial companies have always looked kindly on job applicants who can produce references from the President, no graduating class has ever cashed in as handsomely as the New Frontiers' oldtimers...
Smiting the Wicked. The flock had its tribulations. In 1941 an apostate sheep sued Father Divine to recover a $3,937 contribution, and a New York court found in her favor. In a moment of godly wrath, he threatened to "evaporate for 1,900 years" but instead moved to Philadelphia. He never forgave New York. Later, in the midst of a dry spell in 1950, he prophesied: "I will dry up your rivers and I will dry up your streams. This water shortage in New York City has been just a slight sketch and reflection of what I will...
...Ayub made clear to Delhi that Indian troops could safely be transferred from the Pakistan frontier to the Himalayas. True, Peking has been mumbling about Indian "aggression" in the border area. But these noises began long before the present conflict, and have not been significantly renewed. At the present moment, China's interests are well served by letting its two neighbors waste their scanty substance in war against each other. As an Indian official said grimly, "They must be laughing hard in Peking...
...that deadly grey-green fog of 1915 called chlorine. In Washington, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara rode out the storm, their protests that the gas was utterly harmless drowned in the fatuous worldwide din of indignation. While not publicly giving way, the U.S. tacitly decided that for the moment even tear gas was too hot to handle in Viet...
...moment the press was speechless. Then one reporter mumbled: "You're carrying on a bit much, aren't you mate?" At that, Joan and husband stormed out, followed by the frantic restaurant manager. He had spent most of the day whipping up a special fish sauce for Joan that he said was "comparable to the peach Melba, the tribute to that other Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba." The manager fell to his knees on the sidewalk, kissed Joan's hand and begged her to return. She went back after some hesitation, then tried to laugh away...