Word: moments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nine months later, he was again restless. He took his second leave of absence. For the moment, he says, he had learned enough...
...missing from this equation is a component never to be recreated in any electronic form--the intellectual buzz of a lecture hall, the students' awe at their professor's provoking ideas and the furiously scribbled note that captures that exciting moment of comprehension. Never can or will an Internet site provide the visceral excitement of learning, and alone will this crucial factor keep students attending class at the 62 universities affiliated with Wolf's Web site...
...speculate, for a moment, what Harvard would look like in the aftermath of nuclear war. The Yard, the Business School, the Law School, maybe even the Quad (depending on the strength of the warhead in question), would lie a smoldering heap of lifeless ruins. Four hundred years of history instantly incinerated. Nothing but a pile of dust...
...Finally, take a moment this Sunday to say a little prayer for Tim Couch, who will spend most of his day flat on his back taking smack from the Tennessee Titans defensive line, which has got to be humiliating. Afterward, make sure to pick the TITANS, even giving up 16, to make the Browns' eyes blue...
...Washington?s playbook since a 1994 deal that dismantled Pyongyang?s weapons-grade nuclear energy program in exchange for substantial energy and food aid from Japan, South Korea and the U.S. "We may be buying them off, but that?s the cheapest thing we can do at the moment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Even if we were to send troops and threaten them, that would be unlikely to ease tensions. And the money does influence them." In these wacky post-Cold War times, it seems, one way for states short of funds and friends to get invited back...