Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something. Here talking is a tool and a weapon. Your courses are not a handful of cards, to be slapped down face up and turned for chips. Rather, like the calves of a Victorian lady, they are to be displayed to the vulgar view only at the most propitious moment, and then only after suitable preparatory skirmishes...
...enlightened moment the Corporation designated Elmwood as the residence of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and promised to spare no expense in restoring the house to its original elegance. Certainly, there was much to restore. Elmwood's owner until 1962 had been Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter, widow of a Harvard professor of Fine Arts and a strong-willed woman who brooked no meddling with her crumbling mansion. Shunning modern comforts, she lived by 19th Century candlelight that masked the rotting timbers in shadow and made her appear so formidable that even the City of Cambridge dared...
...watchful waiting hung over the city. Still fearful of a coup, the government stationed secret police outside the homes of suspect officials; top military officers were ordered to sleep at military headquarters so that a check could be kept on their whereabouts. With the Buddhist opposition lulled for the moment, Saigon's student population feebly tried to raise protests against the government. Pelted with chairs and desks thrown from classroom windows, government troops closed many of Saigon's schools, threw nearly 1,000 students into jail to cool off. It seemed likely that Viet Cong agents inspired much...
Cage was on his feet with his mesmerized colleagues to take his solemn bows when the historic moment arrived. The audience-including an actor who was the only one to sit through the whole concert, and a neo-Dadaist who honored the occasion by wearing a bell around his neck-jumped to its feet for a spirited round of applause. "Bravo!" shouted the inwardly immobile. "Encore!" shouted a desperate...
...preventing normal development of organs, so that the baby is born deformed; 4) by infecting the baby so that its first days or weeks of independent life are an uphill struggle against disease. Viruses may strike at any time from the first few days after conception to the moment of delivery...