Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, Lyndon Johnson stopped moving for a moment to give a TIME reporter his own rationale of the presidency-and an insight into the drive and dedication that carry him on and on and on. "You always have to bear in mind," he said, "that people are the purpose and object of this endeavor, from the biggest corporation president down to the poorest sharecropper. They have a babylike faith in me. It is just like the faith that you have in that pilot that's flying your airplane...
...some people have. And to combat such poverty, he proposes "a scheme called 'Write for Life.' " The idea is to get well-known writers to donate their royalties from a specific new book to a fund that will help worthy charities around the world. "Just at the moment when my market price seems to be so high," he explains, "it's paradoxical to be living alongside such wretched privation...
...tory. No other team had lost 100 games a season so many times (14); only the nouveaux Mets and Colts have won fewer pennants (two). It was only three years ago that the Phillies set a record for futility by losing 23 in a row. But now, for the moment, they were lead ing the league...
...family-minded French was dragging the children along as witnesses. Little eyes pop, come Sunday morning, when an unhappy husband steals down to the beach to attack a blonde, buxom nursemaid while she tends her flock. Inexplicably, this departure from form jolts the wife swappers into a moment of sober self-appraisal...
...embellished the legend: he had passed the Texas bar; he took part in the raid on Nagasaki; the Air Force had pressured him to stop propagandizing against the atom bomb. "All over the world, I'm the Hiroshima pilot now," he told Huie in a moment of hubris. "A hundred years from now I'll be the only American anybody thinks of in connection with Hiroshima. Maybe they'll remember Truman too. Eatherly and Truman. The hero and the villain...