Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years from completing his 20-year stretch for burglary, Convict Holmes broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...
Conditions of Marriage. Economist Remington, testified quiet, sullen-mouthed Ann Moos Remington-looking directly at her ex-husband as he sat motionless and poker-faced at the counsel table-had been a Communist. So, she admitted, had she. Communism, in fact, had been the cement in their romance, which began in 1937 when he was a student at Dartmouth and she an undergraduate at Bennington. She told the jury that once when they were sitting in a parked automobile on the Dartmouth campus, he confided that he "was a member of the Communist Party and adjured me to secrecy...
...other act of violence occurred when a Roman player followed his own kick into the goal and jumped on the Navaro goalie's prostrate form. The latter lay there motionless, in an attitude of death, until the local Dr. Quigley scuttled out, regarded him for a moment, and then prodded him thoughtfully a couple of times with his foot. This indignity so outraged the goalie that he jumped to his feet to berate the doctor, and was promptly pronounced fit for duty...
...students never forgot what he said (in the 1945 election, 67 of them were elected Labor M.P.s). A brilliant man who could read 200 pages in an hour ("diabolically clever and omniscient," said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes), he was also a spectacular lecturer. Sometimes gesturing excitedly and sometimes staring motionless at his palm, he spoke "with a force and conviction," recalls one student, "that sent us all away determined to reshape the world...
...Everything is reduced to the very idea of economy," observes Bronstein. "One erect triangle for the architecture of the figure ... a beautiful single hand . . . and one truth of the face-the skull. Everything is rigid, motionless, everything, save the living eyes...