Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several groups of students arrived at the open meeting ready to set the Union machinery in motion. One group presented a set of seven demands for revisions in the plan. The demands passed unanimously...
After the tenants had left the meeting, Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci submitted a motion calling for the City Manager, John H. Corcoran, to dismiss the present members of the Rent Board...
...Nixon had first proposed that the U.S. "undertake a massive $7.5 billion five-year reconstruction program" for all of Indochina as part of an American peace plan one year ago. Last week Kissinger and Hanoi's leaders took the first concrete step toward setting such a program in motion. After three days of what a communique termed "frank, serious and constructive" talks, they announced agreement on the creation of a Joint Economic Commission to survey North Viet Nam's reconstruction needs (see box page 18) and disburse the funds when - and if - the U.S. Congress agrees to provide...
...words were épées William Buckley Jr. and Germaine Greer would have been in bloody tatters after their lively TV debate last week on the platform of the Cambridge Union Society. The motion: "This House Supports the Women's Liberation Movement." Arguing against the proposition, Buckley picked up Feminist Greer's favorite complaint, turned it around and labeled his opponent a female chauvinist. "It seems to me altogether plain that Miss Greer, who knows [and] understands her theatrical resources, has very definitely exploited sex in the course of attempting to shock people into a recognition...
...After a wife complained that her husband showed no reaction when she spoke to him, Berger replayed a tape made at a previous joint therapy session. In the rerun, the wife talked while her husband held his pipe in clenched fingers and tamped down the tobacco with a jabbing motion that in retrospect revealed a "squelched inner fury...