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Word: motioning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free!' But my father never said anything in public. He stayed out of politics, and he bore his hatred in silence. That's the worst kind of hate, you know." Husky Ferenc had shouldered his way through the Communist bureaucracy just the same, and had dreamed of becoming a motion-picture director. On Oct. 23 he had acted out of sheer impulse, emotion, and it was with something of the same feeling that he one day decided the revolution was over, and beat it for the Austrian border. Last month in Vienna he was ashamed of this decision, declaring that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Freedom's Choice | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...scoring a long series of scientific triumphs. He developed the proton linear accelerator, an important atomic tool, and he holds patents in radar and other branches of electronics. A crack weekend golfer, he invented an electronic golf-practice gadget, which uses a photo-electric eye to spy on the motion of the club. One of these he gave to President Eisenhower. He drives an impressive yellow Lincoln convertible, and he does not see why scientists should not be prosperous as well as famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Nuclear Energy? | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...patient must not drink heavily because that-it is now known-adds to the burden on the heart instead of decreasing it. Angina patients are now also allowed to fly, in preference to a longer, more fatiguing surface journey, thanks to the development of pressurized cabins and anti-motion-sickness pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Angina Then & Now | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...days to the eye-straining practice of picking apart football movies. But the shots he studied then were far removed from pro productions. "Then we had 16 mm.," he remembers. "Half the time you weren't even in the picture. Now we have Cin-emaScope-and in slow motion. There's no place to hide. You see yourself and groan, 'Now why did I cut there? Why didn't I move faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: See Yourself & Groan | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Baby Doll (Newtown; Warner) is just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited. In condemning it, the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency declared: "It dwells almost without variation or relief upon carnal suggestiveness."-The statement is true enough, but there is room for doubt that the carnality of the picture makes it unfit to be seen. The film was clearly intended-both by Playwright Tennessee Williams, who wrote the script, and by Elia Kazan, who directed it-to arouse disgust; not disgust with the film itself, but with the kind of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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