Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times. His commitment to Marxism and communism appears to have been another important factor in his motivation. He also had demonstrated [through the attempt to kill General Walker] a capacity to act decisively and without regard to the consequences when such action would further his aims of the moment. Out of these and the many other factors which may have molded the character of Lee Harvey Oswald there emerged a man capable...
...cars to the rear, in the Lincoln carrying the Lyndon Johnsons and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough, Secret Service Man Rufus W. Youngblood heard "an explosive noise." He wheeled around from the front seat, hit Johnson on the shoulder and yelled, "Get down!" Reported Johnson: "Almost in the same moment in which Youngblood hit or pushed me, he vaulted over the back seat and sat on me. I was bent over under the weight of Agent Youngblood's body, toward Mrs. Johnson and Senator Yarborough...
Harvard controlled the ball constantly during the first half, but had very few genuine scoring opportunities. The most frustrating moment of the half came late in the second quarter, when sophomore Charlie Njoku booted a high shot toward the net. Tufts goalie Dick Jaffe leaped and barley deflected the kick. The ball plopped in front of the goal, but the Crimson team was caught collectively flatfooted, and a Tufts defensemen cleared the ball...
...Senator's vacant eyes off the shoetops of the person next to him. And before he was four minutes into his demand for "law and order in this nation," he betrayed his ennui, one might say world sadness; the teleprompter stopped, so did Goldwater, and for one long moment his eyes went up and back into his mind, slowly searching for the key phrase which would unleash a mindless string of sentences to sustain him until he could switch back to the safety of the moving words...
Usually this tension is ignored or alone in Mississippi. As he drives, his eyes constantly flit to the rear view mirror and he habitually notes the make and color of every car he sees. immersed in the work of the moment. Often it rises to the surface in a stupid argument with a fellow worker. And sometimes workers express it to each other, because they all feel it, "By accident I crossed into Tennessee today. Man, did it feel good up there...