Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premonitions & Bombs. From the moment he left the Black Muslims, Malcolm had premonitions of mortality. "No one can get out without trouble," he said. "This thing with me will be resolved by death and violence." For once he was right. Two weeks ago, in the dead of night, fire bombs gutted Malcolm's home in East Elmhurst, N.Y., forcing him to flee with his family in nightclothes. Malcolm blamed it on the Muslims; they, in turn, accused Malcolm of planting the bombs in the house himself, partly for publicity purposes, partly because they had lent him the house...
...other U.S. jets and Skyraider attack bombers flew 47 sorties from Bienhoa Airbase near Saigon, hitting hard with bombs and rockets at units of Viet Cong in the jungles east of the capital. With all the U.S. hardware in the sky, the Viet Cong began lying low for the moment...
...moment, though, much of the Germans' hurt and dismay over the new hostility toward them was vented on Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and the CDU-which could conceivably lose the national elections in September over the Middle East fiasco, as CDU strategists privately admitted. But the issue went deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth...
...morality, argued Fletcher, is that "there is only one thing which is always good regardless of circumstances, and that is neighborly concern, social responsibility, agape-which is a divine imperative." In the situational approach of the new morality, he said, "one enters into every decision-making moment armed with all the wisdom of the culture, but prepared in one's freedom to suspend and violate any rule except that one must as responsibly as possible seek the good of one's neighbor." Which is quite a long thought for an 18-year-old during a passionate moment...
...Floodlights were turned on to make a patch of noon on the dark runway, and the photographers stood poised at its fringes, squinting up into the light as the first tourists filed off the plane. Then she appeared in the welcoming glare-and nobody took her picture. An awkward moment. She smiled and started down the ramp. "There she is!" cried the producer of the film she had come to make. "That's Jeanne Moreau...