Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buses and on foot. They stood in the shimmering heat of midsummer, and they waited. Even when registrars as sured them, "We'll be here past today -we'll be here a long time," they still waited. They had, after all, waited a long while for this moment. Their patience was rewarded. In four days, 41 federal registrars added 6,998 Negro voters to the rolls in counties where there had previously been only 3,857. Beamed U.S. Attorney General Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, 43, who played a central role in drafting the Voting Rights...
...book together. It never reached publication while the poet lived, but since his death Prieto has become known throughout Spain as the "Line Poet," primarily for his exquisite evocations of Lorca's poetic moods. Butterflies & Starlings. The poet's own drawings capture more the passion of a moment; Prieto's, the controlled fire that is Lorca's hallmark. The imagery that surprises in print, astonishes in pictures. Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman, for example, goes: "Not for one moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies...
...point of every year. Restorers admiringly-and enviously-go over every inch of each other's antiques. Flourishing "before" pictures, they try to outdo each other with stories of mileage, speed, and prices offered (top price on record is $6,000 for a two-door Phaeton). But the moment of truth is the judging. After a day's parade through Detroit and on across the border into Windsor, Ont., the owners took their rags and wax and polished up their beauties for the final day. Explains George De Angelis, a co-chairman of the club: "The first round...
...speaking mostly Tamil or Telugu-rose up in a wave of riots, murders and suicides to protest so blatant a move on the part of the "arrogant" Indo-Aryans of the north. Shastri muddled through several weeks of bloodshed, finally decided to rescind the January order and for the moment retain English as well as 14 southern languages. "We have to find some middle course," he temporized. More than a decade ago, Nehru toyed with the idea of making English the official language (he himself could barely speak Hindi) but dropped the notion when he realized it would undercut...
...called Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death), history's first atomic bomb blasted the dawn. This is the sometimes chilling story of that still chilling event. The author, a correspondent in TIME'S Washington bureau, has done a painstakingly thorough job of reporting that makes that lurid moment seem to have happened only yesterday...