Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OUTSIDE the White House, carpenters banged together sturdy planks of high-grade pine to construct the inaugural-parade reviewing stand. With far less noise and motion, the man who will take the salute on Jan. 20 was also building, and also using first-rate materials. President-elect Richard Nixon, having picked most of his administrative staff, began to select policymakers...
...cause of the erratic wobbling motion has long been a geophysical mystery. Elaborate calculations have shown that without great forces to sustain the wobble, it would be effectively damped out in as little as 30 years. Now, after dis carding several other theories, scientists have found convincing evidence that it is caused and sustained by major earthquakes...
...crucial for us to attend the meeting to raise the issue of ROTC's political legitimacy," one member who supported the final motion said. "Our being there will also show that we're working within the framework of the University's decision-making structure," he added...
...graceful professionalism of the Crimson fencers was more evident than ever before on Saturday. Watching Cetrulo, Winfield, and Keller fence is a truly pleasing experience. They waste little motion in their clean and swift lunges and have none of the bouncing, jerky motions which characterize the less confident and less skilled fencers...
...only the special optical effects were made artificially: actors did 90 per cent of their own stunts and those existing stuntmen were frequently killed. The many interviews that comprise two-thirds of the book share in common a true nostalgia for physical pain, for the ordeals involved in creating motion pictures honestly, unhampered by union restrictions, production supervision, and general professional laziness. Many statements, among them Nancy Carroll's memoir of shooting MGM's The Water Hole in the heart of Death Valley (the casualty rate approaching Stroheim's for Greed, the most famous horror story of Death Valley...