Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, James Forman, executive secretary of SNCC, borrowed Lackey's bullhorn to quiet a restless mob outside the Jackson Street Baptist Church. When he bitterly criticized the police chief for calling in the posse, Lackey, who had been standing on the edge of the crowd, hesitated for a moment and then strode up to Forman...
...Confederate" parade moved up the mall, hundreds of white-collar workers crowded the capitol windows. For a moment they watched silently. Then, as the marchers began chanting. "Go home, niggers," a huge shout of approval roared from the building...
...this very moment your front group in America, the Student Nonviolent Chinese Communists, are carrying out your orders to blackjack the Johnson Administration into sending government troops into the sovereign state of Alabama, whose courageous struggle for independence in the last century was so brutally crushed by your own Abe Lin-coln, and which under the brave leadership of the Wallace Lama is now engaged in a life and death struggle to preserve its quaint indigenous way of life from utter destruction at the hands of your agents, the Northern aggressors. All this to cover up your ruthless invasion...
...aside to snap a closeup of the doctor. Finally the SNCC field secretary stepped back a foot or two and plucked a shabby suit coat from a friend. With a huff of disgust, he yanked it on and buttoned it on over his soiled blue overalls. For a moment he lagged behind, morose and contemplative. Then, clapping his hands together, he lunged forward, linked arms with King and began to sing. "We Shall Overcome" echoed back through the ranks out into the streets and into the shabby grey houses...
When the psychological turning point of an ambitious epic of business is the moment when the hero refuses to let the corrupt supplier pay for his call girl -by golly, he'll pay his own way-the effect is not only meretricious but laughable...