Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snakes began to weave back & forth as if they were "dancing" to the music. (Many herpetologists believe that cobras actually pay little attention to the pipes but sway in an effort to follow the body movements of the charmer. Carefully keeping them swaying with a motion of his hand. Sir Miles's charmer stopped playing, inched forward, and with his other hand firmly grasped one reptile behind the neck, lifted it into a bag. He then repeated the performance on the remaining eight...
...program set in motion a year ago provides that undergraduates in Harvard College who wish to compete for the annual prizes may present themselves for examination on books selected from Parts I and II of the Harvard Reading List in American History. The Committee will emphasize the extracurricular nature of the competition by excluding from the examination under Plan I students who have had any courses in American History or American literature...
...five minutes before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually in motion toward the Czech border which they were to cross at 2 p.m., Il Duce in Rome rang up Chancellor Hitler at Berlin and they talked for 45 minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt, an appeal to which the only reply was an anti-Roosevelt tirade delivered that same evening to an audience of 175,000 Germans by No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The results of the Mussolini-Hitler conversation were flashed to London where they brought...
...German troops, ordered to swing across the frontier at three different points between Helfenberg and Finsterau at 2 p. m. precisely, had set their legs in motion on German soil at 1:58 p. m. by the wrist watch of their commander, Colonel General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. They entered first that part of the Bohemian Forest in which Schiller laid his play The Robbers. Since in these rustic parts there were no accommodations deemed suitable for high officers, these, on the first night, left their German troops sleeping in tents or peasant huts, themselves returned to sleep in hotels...
...with a suction machine like a little hand vacuum cleaner. Then he picked up Manning's heart and held it faintly fluttering in his hand. The pericardium (membrane enveloping the heart) was bruised and a large pool of blood was trapped in the heart, impeding its motion. Dr. Nicoll slit through the pericardium, and the blood oozed out. At once William Manning's heart leaped in Dr. Nicoll's hand "like a fish out of water...