Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arguments after that, and he rejected Dash's claim that the delay would amount to "ruling the Senate out of court." Sirica said that he would "not be pushed into a half-baked job" and that he had not yet even read the committee's 35-page motion seeking the tapes and documents...
...that Boyle had confirmed the slaying contract and that the two had figured out a way of embezzling $20,000 of union funds to finance the killing. Last week William Turnblazer made a formal confession of his own guilt and charged his old friend with masterminding and setting in motion the murder plot...
...need for Presidents to travel is self-evident, but it can be asked whether motion is replacing substance. Nixon's recent cross-country swing was an engineered spectacle that started with his speech in the Oval Office, sped south to Florida, then on to New Orleans and the specially selected VFW audience, and came to rest by the Pacific. It was supposed to be a triumphal march from coast to coast, an antidote to Watergate. It failed because of Nixon's nervousness and because it was a hollow concept...
...brutal pace? Of course. But to Billie Jean, now 29, perpetual motion is what life is all about. Her career has been one headlong rush, though as tennis champs go she started late-at age eleven. She was a tomboy who played Softball with the fellas in Long Beach, Calif. Sport, she realized, was her thing, but the demand for female shortstops was limited. Her father, a fireman, suggested that she choose tennis, swimming or golf, and she squandered $8 on a purple racket with a velvet grip. After her first day on the courts she told her mother that...
Just how far the weed has come with the middle class since the first furtive puffs in college dormitories in the 1960s was evident at the A.B.A. convention. A year ago, Whitney North Seymour Sr., past president of the A.B.A., helped water down a decriminalization motion. This year Seymour was the first speaker in favor of the revised resolution. Says he: "Reflecting on the consequences of criminal penalties to the 20-odd million young people using marijuana, I decided that we ought to concentrate on trying to stop sales and start removing penalties for possession." Seymour was joined...