Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baird said the judges granted yesterday a motion turning the case into a class action suit by including all district attorneys in the state among the defendants...
Vellucci entered a motion last month to change the name of Plympton St. "because he wasn't getting good coverage from The Crimson," Councilor Barbara Ackermann said last night...
...year before. And movies offering escapist fare, like Earthquake and Airport 1975, are pulling in money as they have not done since the advent of television. Variety projects 1974 receipts of $1.65 billion, a shade below the 1946 record of $1.69 billion. Says Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America: "When people are anxious and fearful, they long for the dark comfort of the movie where the 65-ft. screen offers escape...
...Running through their gears, these cars wail like air-raid sirens going at full blast. They will average over 120 mph on this course with its 11 curves and two long straights. Watching these cars run their laps is like seeing five out of every 100 frames of a motion picture; a series of loud flashes with little continuity and a great deal of suspense between glimpses. I won't know the overall story of the race until I read it in the next day's paper...
March 1972 was the beginning of the end for Allende's Chile. The congressional electoral victory had set Allende's opponents firmly in motion to destroy him after they realized he would not be voted out of office by the Chilean people. Though no one knew it at the time, the ITT disclosures were not so much cause for future hope as they were indications of future tragedy...