Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armed forces of Latin America's biggest country finally lost patience and sent him packing (see THE HEMISPHERE). Despite the fact that this was a military coup against a constitutional regime, State Department officials made no attempt to conceal their pleasure over Jango's fall. The moment Brazil's Congress gave the new regime a legal base by naming Goulart's next-in-line to succeed him, President Lyndon Johnson extended his "warmest wishes" and hinted at quick recognition. All this was in line with the policy laid down by Assistant Secretary of State for Inter...
...came on Easter Sunday in Birmingham, Ala., citadel of segregation. There, some 35,000 people, Negro and white in almost equal numbers and comprising the largest integrated gathering in Alabama history, flocked to a city-owned football field to hear Evangelist Billy Graham. Exclaimed he: "What a moment and what an hour in Birmingham!" It was certainly that-far different from another Sunday, only seven months before, when a dynamite blast at a Negro church killed four little girls. Said Arthur P. Cook, white publisher of three local weeklies, about the Graham meeting: "It is the greatest thing that...
Reid's most crucial moment came in an earlier test of strength with military brass jealous of his influence. To get the upper hand, he recently called in the army and navy chiefs of staff one at a time to inform them of a new system of rotating the three military staff command positions every 18 months. Getting wind of Reid's maneuver, officers of the powerful air force grew restless, and coup rumors crackled through the capital. Immediately, Reid called in the air force chief of staff-either accept the rotation plan, he put it bluntly...
This wordless vignette is her first entrance and exit in Broadway's new musical, Funny Girl. In the moment's pause before she disappears as quickly as she came, she leaves an image in the eye-of a carelessly stacked girl with a long nose and bones awry, wearing a lumpy brown leopard-trimmed coat and looking like the star of nothing. But there is something in her clear, elliptical gaze that is beyond resistance. It invites too much sympathy to be as aggressive as it seems. People watching it can almost hear the last few ticks before...
From that moment, no one has a chance not to know it. "I'm a great big clump of talent," she sings with conviction. "I've got 36 expressions-sweet as pie to tough as leather-and that's six expressions more than all the Barrymores put together. I'm the greatest star-an American Beauty rose, with an American beauty nose...