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Word: motionful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Preusser's motion to reverse the vote on the zoning proposal was "charter righted" or tabled for the moment, but the legality of the motion itself was upheld on a 5-4 vote, an indication of how the final tally may split...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: An Adversary Relationship | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

Forget the joke of a meet against the Dutch national team. That 44-41 win was garnered in slow motion. Cruise speed will return this weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquamen Head Up Foursome Of Squads Still Undefeated | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...movements of which the sex of man - that is to say, the sense of man- consists. The impersonal industry of the U.S.A., having appropriated the situational wisdoms of East and West, took the fetters of the Middle Ages and made of them unchastity belts [and] set in motion antiseptic assembly lines off of which began to roll sadomobiles, succubuses, sodomy sofas for the home, and public gomorrarcades, and at the same time it established research institutes and science foundations to take up the fight to liberate sex from the servitude of the perpetuation of the species. Sex ceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...fellow at Washington's Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The next months or year will be very critical. With China's moves west, the U.S. normalization with Peking, the possibility of Western arms sales to the Chinese, and developments in SALT, all the major actors are in motion. We have to be very careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America and Russia | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...closed in. When the rubber reached him, Orr immediately grabbed it and, as his opponent skidded out of the play, spun completely around to close in on New York netminder Eddie Giacomin. Giacomin tensed for the shot, but Orr's wristed bullet found net so quickly that, as slow-motion replays later showed, the goalie had barely reacted before the puck sped by low on the short side. Even dejected Ranger fans had to applaud as Orr, followed by his teammates, later paraded around the ice with the trophy held above his head...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Orr: Ending at the Beginning | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

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