Word: motioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Once there was a vent with a string attached and the motion detector kept picking up the string and setting off the alarm. We got the same alarm call three times in one day,” DiVirgilio laughs...
...important poets today for his renovation of poetic forms, constant self-examination and personal and artistic renewal. As he wrote in “Houseboat Days,” “To praise this, blame that, / Leads one subtly away from the beginning, where / We must stay, in motion...
...sought coffee peddler set a pot of water boiling on a tiny gas stove. He carefully poured steaming water through what looked suspiciously like a gym sock filled with ground coffee. It dripped into a can already laced with two generous spoonfuls of sweetened condensed milk. In one practiced motion he scooped a plate of ice into a plastic sack, poured in the steaming coffee, stabbed it with a straw and deftly secured the bag with a rubber band. Poon triumphantly handed me the kafae thung and eyed me as I sipped the potent, sweet brew. "Very good Thai coffee...
...citizens of Lanshan county are putting up one of the most remarkable fights. Several families have defied arrest and harassment by organizing a campaign to impeach officials they accuse of gross incompetence and corruption. Their movement comes to a head this week with a motion to impeach the county's police chief?Tang Jili?and the vice county magistrate on charges of corruption. It will probably fail, but it's one of the most daring attempts to date of Chinese citizens trying to get at local mandarins who still wield immeasurable power. It's at the county level that taxation...
Despite his Ivy-League education and relatively peaceful childhood, it cannot be questioned that Kerouac spoke from experience on the points of adventure and staying in motion. The wild lives of his fictional characters were only surpassed by those of the writer himself and his bohemian friends. Although truth be told, separating these two groups is not so simple—Kerouac’s eclectic friendships were in many cases thinly disguised models for those Sal Paradise found on the road...