Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watches, absorbed, the mating dance of the scorpions: "These hideous devotees of gaiety provide a dance that is not wholly devoid of charm . . . They seek one another and fly precipitately the moment they touch, as though they had mutually burnt their fingers ... At times there is a violent tumult; a confused mass of swarming legs, snapping claws, tails curving and clashing, threatening or fondling, it is hard to say which. All, large and small alike, take part in the brawl; it might be a battle to the death, a general massacre; and it is just a wanton frolic...
...people, as for its State Department, this was a moment of rare anguish; an autopsy on a friend is not nice work. With such diplomatic surgery, Secretary of State Dean Acheson (and the staff of 80 who had worked on the white paper) had operated on the prostrate body of Nationalist China. Their task was complicated by the fact that the body was still stubbornly squirming with life...
...nobody wanted unity on Scott's terms, and for the moment, the committeemen were less interested in the Democrats than they were in the control of their own party. The old, uneasy Taft-Stassen alliance of the Philadelphia days had settled well in advance on New Jersey's Guy George Gabrielson as its candidate for national chairman. He was an Iowa boy who made good in the big city as a Wall Street lawyer and industrialist. "Even Paul Robeson couldn't find fault with Gabrielson," said a Negro committeeman from Mississippi. Trilled the committeewoman from Iowa...
...minutes later, for the first time in ten years, Jan came face to face with Josepha and his son, who had grown so tall that he scarcely knew him. For a moment the Olechnys stood still, then they rushed weeping into each other's arms. Last week they prepared to go to Canada, which had accepted them as farmer immigrants. The Olechnys hoped it would be their last trip for a while...
...nation we are approaching at a meteoric rate closer and closer to the edge of spiritual darkness and Christian bankruptcy. At the moment, our decencies of life, such as remain, are the coppers of our spiritual capital, which, like our gold reserves, are rapidly diminishing...