Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murder, of protests and parades and sit-ins in scores of U.S. cities and in the White House itself. It was a week in which the potential for further violence was so great that President Johnson signed an order that would have dispatched federal troops to Alabama on a moment's notice. It was a week of intense pressures and back-room dealings, of quick emotionalism and easily achieved righteousness. And it was a very trying week for the foremost leader of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Martin Luther King...
...fundamentals of the Christian church are at stake in this hour. Someone said this is the largest gathering of ministers since the Council of Trent. I'd venture to say it is also just as important. We differ in the way we interpret the Scripture. But at this moment the church is being challenged." Second, "the Constitution of the United States is at stake here. Three, we are in the midst of a revolution regarding human rights. Sunday evening my wife and I watched TV and saw those ghastly scenes-our stomachs turned...
...rolled up, studied an enlarged map of Selma. Two telephone lines, fed into an office squawk box, echoed with brisk reports from Aide John Doar on the scene. At 3:56 p.m., Katzenbach phoned Presidential Aide Bill Moyers at the White House. "We're right at the critical moment," said he. "I'll keep you posted...
There are prizes for writing Attic , for collecting books, for interest in soil mechanics. awards are open to everyone, although some are limited to men and one to men living in Lowell House, Perhaps Harvard achieves one fleeting moment of equality at Commencement. Both the young man who learned to write Latin at Milton and the hydraulics expert from the Bronx High School of Science get praised and paid for their efforts...
...administration of John Kennedy may be remembered only as a brief, interesting, glamorous, and insubstantial moment or it may be that this moment will be remembered us a major one, whose will be sounded again and again," Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government and director of the Kennedy institute, said last night at the Law School Program...