Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Road. After 90 minutes, Johnson called in the waiting newsmen. "I'm sorry to have delayed you," he said matter-of-factly. "We are going over to get a little hors d'oeuvres and a sandwich in a moment, and then we are going to Atlantic City." That was the first anyone knew that he would be going to the convention that night. He said that Humphrey and Dodd would be on the plane with him-and he indicated that the reason for his trip would be to announce to the convention his choice for Vice President...
...very moment it began, Lyndon landed in Atlantic City and TV followed him to the hall. He paused first for a planeside interview, then 'coptered to a smaller field and finally drove to the Pageant Motel. When the seven seconding speeches finally ended and the delegates roared approval of a motion to nominate Johnson by acclamation, TV showed Lyndon striding into Convention Hall...
...that moment, Humphrey thought he had absolute assurance from the White House that he would be Lyndon Johnson's running mate. But before the day was out, the President, milking the last drop of suspense from a generally suspenseless convention, was to give Humphrey a few bad moments. Hubert withstood them pretty well. And why not? He had already suffered and survived many a bad moment and many a disappointment during his up-and-down political career...
...fight, wherever I must, as long as I must, until the enemy is defeated and the national stain washed clean." De Gaulle tried to persuade the Vichy government to carry on the war from French North Africa, but no one of any eminence followed him into exile. "At this moment, the worst in her history," De Gaulle realized, "it was for me to assume the burden of France...
...Security Service. "Would he have made a lot of money in his export house trading with the Far East? Might he have married Flavia Wisebite? As in musical chairs, the piano stops suddenly, someone is left without a seat, petrified for all time in their attitude of that particular moment...