Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first they arose over Churchill's coolness toward the cross-Channel invasion. Eisenhower, in fact, said that Churchill feared the bloodletting of a direct thrust at the Germans. Almost up to D-day itself, and while all plans for it had long since been put in motion, the Prime Minister plumped for an all-out attack against the "soft underbelly" of Europe (Italy, the Balkans, southern France). In this contest Ike proved just as stubborn as Churchill, and won every exchange...
Valpey and his staff then looked over the slow-motion pictures, taking notes, doping out how the celluloid results would affect next week's practice for the Yale game. When the coaches digested the contents thoroughly, they showed the Varsity how it behaved in the victory over Brown...
...Nazi general really guilty? The question stirs some qualms in his idealistic prosecutor, a U.S. Army major (Ray Milland). Major Milland's search for the facts might have turned up some interesting moral issues-or at least some effective melodrama. Instead, there is only a sort of slow-motion cops & robbers chase in an uncertain direction. By the time Milland's search is patly ended, even the realistic backgrounds have begun to take on a phony look...
...dining hall food, decided that he was being poisoned. He was shipped back to Russia after a Stillman nurse found him drinking a bottle of ink for breakfast. This left no one with sufficient zvon-aptitude to shake Lowell's rafters, and today the bells are only set in motion on special occasions...
...only shadow over this run--as well as the entire Crimson showing--is that the 'Crusaders are, on the whole, one of the slowest teams in history. Their man-in-motion waddled out toward flank like the tired H.C. tackle, Tony Palmer, listed tongue-in-check at 254 pounds, came off the field at the end of the game...