Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cars to make business calls. Older people, already cruelly pressed by infla tion and often shut in by illness or fear of crime, would be further crimped in their access to the outside. For nearly everyone, it is distressing to contemplate yet another meter clicking away on an ordinary motion of daily life...
...that was long ago, and photography has come a long way, baby. Film is more sensitive. Lenses are cleverer and faster. For years people have been bombarded by sneak shots, candid exposes, sensitive impressions of subway straps, flying tackles artfully half-arrested in motion, slick distortions like the famous photograph of Estes Kefauver's huge hand symbolically extended toward the voting public...
...Most Congressmen are afraid of impeachment," Rather said. He estimated that only 70 or so members of the House would vote for such a motion today...
...weapons. The men in Washington who planned this war knew that the National Liberation Front and North Vietnam had only limited medical facilities and that widespread injuries, instead of deaths, would severely tax those facilities and weaken the Vietnamese war effort. So they issued crisp orders which set in motion the farm wives and the bomber pilots. And more small boys clutched shredded bodies and blinded eyes and screamed in agony...
...expected, it rejected the motion by a 5-4 margin. All four liberals voted against the bill, joined by Alfred E.Vellucci, the only independent councilor who had gone on record supporting controls...