Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journalistic side, they were led by the New York Times. In an editorial titled "The War Hawks," it said: "A comparatively small group of Americans, at this moment predominantly political in character and predominantly Republican in politics, is doing its best to multiply the perils and frustrations of the war in Southeast Asia. This group ignores the realities of the present situation ... It ignores the logistics and belittles the cost in lives lost, blood spilled and treasure wasted, of fighting a war on a jungle front 7,000 miles from the coast of California...
...cites a recent occasion when Moorer was ordered to present a briefing. Moorer asked Brett for a look at some photographic slides that were to be shown. "He took out each slide and held it up to the window of the plane and looked at it for just a moment and put it back in. He went through 25, one after another. And then he said, 'Okay, now let's see if I have them'-and he told me what every slide...
Whereupon those who saved Khanh -including Airman Ky-turned on him themselves. The Armed Forces Council reportedly voted a no-confidence motion against Khanh. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, commander of the northernmost I Corps, was proclaimed chief of the capital's "liberation forces." For the moment, the winners seemed to be Thi, Ky and IV Corps Commander General Nguyen Van Thieu...
...open Johannine spirit-the willingness to reach beyond the frontiers of Catholic doctrine and bring the church into dialogue with the modern world. Perhaps more important, they were ideas whose time had come round at last. The encyclical appeared in a season of relaxing world tensions and at the moment in history when the Christian churches had entered an era of good will-the ecumenical century...
...film's most striking symbols are the ever-present ships-monsters that plow along polluted waterways and shrink everything to insignificance: men, trees, even a listless orgy in a fisherman's hut. Color dominates another scene in which Harris withdraws moment by moment from a meeting with his men, motivated by associations with a touch of blue paint on the wall...