Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black evening slippers, a hush settled over the elegant living room. Johnson greeted the diners, who included Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Designer Mollie Parnis, Playwright Marc Connelly, ex-White House Aide Jack Valenti (now the $125,000-a-year president of Hollywood's Motion Picture Association). Soon Johnson fell into conversation with Williams and two other guests. He reminisced for a bit about the Old West and Artist Frederic Remington, one of his favorites. Then he spoke of the vast relief he would feel when he turned his office, with all of its pressures, over...
During their lunar orbiting, the astronauts will take turns shooting still, motion and stereo pictures in color and black-and-white. They will study craters and ridges to see how easily they can be recognized as landmarks. They will plot their position for navigational fixes that will be useful for lunar-landing crews on later missions. On the seventh revolution, they will be able to survey a prime LM landing site at a time when illumination is ideal for observation: the sun will be 6.6° above the horizon, casting the long shadows that best bring out distinctive surface features...
When considering a motion for a new trial, for example, the judge may change a death sentence to life imprisonment...
...predecessor, Floyd Wilson, preferred to wait for the good shot to open up and was willing to pass the ball around the periphery for minutes at a time if necessary. In contrast, Harrison, a former NBA All-Star, stresses motion towards the ball and towards the basket...
Last spring, the HUC passed a highly significant motion calling for student seats on all faculty committees. We sent the proposal to the CEP and Committee on Houses (COH) and crossed our fingers. In time, both groups sent back ambiguous letters of rejection; and they invited us in to talk about it. We could do nothing except change our minds and agree with them or wait a year and try again. Doing either meant abdicating our responsibility to the student body. Yet the alternative was confrontation politics, something that the HUC, which acts with its hands rather than its feet...