Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guerrillas had been defeated in Greece, but the West feared that new attacks might be launched from Albanian and Bulgarian soil. The U.S., Britain, China and Australia introduced a motion asking for an embargo on arms to Albania and Bulgaria, until they were certified by UNSCOB as having stopped all aid to Greek Communists. Last week the embargo motion was approved by the U.N. Assembly's Political Committee, with only the Communist bloc (including Yugoslavia) voting against...
...already adopted her mother's maiden name ("Who could dance with a name like Hookham?"), still later changed Fontes to Fonteyn (pronounced Fontaine). She worked with Markova in ballet after ballet, studying her technique, watching every motion and emotion...
...deafness and paralysis. In some kinds of paralysis, he theorizes, the patient could be equipped with an apparatus (as a substitute transmission station for damaged nerves), worn at the hip or knee and turned on or off by the patient. A manually operated switchboard might select such a desired motion as walking...
...last month,* puzzled moviemen ponder such possible causes as the weather, the crops and the local bingo games. Last week a fledgling producer, Novelist Polan (There Goes Lona Henry) Banks, offered a fresher theory: Hollywood has been underestimating the power of a woman. Banks told the Motion Picture Herald...
...other American industry, great or small, has forgotten that women own about 70% of the nation's wealth and control an even greater percentage of its buying. More than 90% of the country's advertising is directed at the woman . . . but postwar [motion] picture advertising has been plastered with maniacal killers, rapists, thugs of all varieties . . . The typical woman gets more than she wants of that in the news columns. She is not disposed to go to the [movies] for more of the same...