Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parting Complaint. The last big item on the agenda was roads. Maggie and Archie Stokes live on a road that "has been ready for blacktop for two years." Archie moved that $5,000 be allotted for blacktopping this year. The motion was voted down when it was explained that $5,000 would pave only about 150 ft. Mac Moody, an elderly town worker, hiked his leather hat back on his head and complained that "the state just don't want to spend money on little roads." Then he strode outside...
...fantasized societies are huge machines with no purpose but their own preservation. The people who comprise the mechanism have lost all individual sense of purpose. They only have direction if they accept a job and a place in their society--a role in keeping the aimless device in perpetual motion. Lem's joke is so big that it sucks in human effort and wastes lives. His punch line is the pain of purposelessness...
...controversial voiding of 12 absentee ballots, filed earlier by members of the club who were unable to attend the elections, was the first motion passed...
...proposal to settle the order of speakers by lottery was the second motion, and a proposal by Hartnett's opponent to add 30 seconds to his speech after he had used up his allotted time was the third...
...into just that kind of resistance when House Leader Michael Foot tried to ram through a guillotine vote to restrict debate on the devolution bill, which would give limited home rule to Scotland and Wales. Furious, 22 rebellious Labor M.P.s joined the opposition long enough to blunt the guillotine motion by 312 to 283, a stunning 29-vote margin; 15 other Laborites abstained...