Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shoulder, or using the handshake to hurry someone past him in the reception line. After viewing the performance on television, New York Times TV Critic Jack Gould quipped: "The President can only be described as the Y. A. Tittle of handshakers; he does not let go until the last moment...
...midnight, except on New Year's Day when the pass holders may stagger back as late as 5 a.m. Though some 800,000 West Berliners qualify for the passes, many of them are Flüchtlinge-refugees from East Germany who would be nabbed by the Vopos the moment they crossed the Wall and therefore will not dare...
...again police gave way. The horde raced across Red Square, up an incline not far from Nikita's window (he was out inspecting an economics exhibition), past Lenin's granite mausoleum, and on toward the historic Spassky Gate that leads to the inner Kremlin grounds. At that moment the huge iron gates clanged shut. Using sound trucks, the police pleaded with the students to disperse, but for two more hours they argued and jostled with police. Ogling the demonstration were thousands of Russians, who watched from the street and from the windows of GUM, the big state-owned...
...power in the party and his even wider appeal to the nation. When the governing board of the Socialist Party met last week at its Paris headquarters just off Place Pigalle, Mollet fought hard to stop the Socialists from naming anyone as a presidential candidate-at least at this moment. But of the 43 Socialists present at last week's meeting, fully 35 backed Defferre and only eight stood with Mollet. It seems certain that Defferre will get full Socialist Party support at next February's special congress...
...from the collective unconscious, but Freud's ghost has the free run of Elsinore: whenever Hamlet delivers a soliloquy, he takes refuge in a large hole in the center of the stage, getting in up to his knees, waist or neck, depending on the psychographic depth of the moment. "Nobody loves me or wants me to make a decent career in this lousy court," he whines...