Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cage the blackbird sat motionless, silent and weak from hunger. On the bed lay the bodies of Ludovico and Armida Monti, and between them was the pistol with which Monti had shot first his wife, then himself. Piled beside the bed and about the house were 50,000 lire's worth of copies of Unita. Proud Ludovico Monti had not embezzled money; he had simply been unable to admit that the best Unita salesman in Tuscany could not sell as many papers as Unita had sent...
Graton's idea was to build a light microscope giving far higher magnifications than had been achieved before, and he needed an almost perfectly motionless base on which to stand it. The microscope was built in 1931, with various refinements added since, and is known as the Graton-Dune precision micro-camera. It gives a real magnification of 6,000 to 1. Electron microscopes, developed about the same time, give real magnifications up to 50,000 or 100,000 by using enlargements of negatives. This microscope disproved an old law concerning the limit of magnification of light instruments, and also...
...nervous, quick-moving, high-strung guy," said one of his close friends later. "He could no more stand calmly and confess than he could fly to the moon." Nevertheless, Vogeler stood almost motionless^ before the Budapest court and, in a voice as monotonous as the drone of a litany, confessed to having plotted against the Red regime...
Nobody paid the slightest attention. A swarthy young (30) Communist from Sicily, Luigi di Mauro, slipped through the melee, cocked his fist, was set to throw a haymaker against Italy's motionless Premier when another huge fist, belonging to Labor Minister Achille Marazza, appeared from nowhere and knocked him flat. In frustrated rage, Comrade Di Mauro bit Marazza's thumb to the bone. Meanwhile, Comrade Togliatti had prudently retreated to the corridor...
...thank you," Fuchs replied, and smiled. They were the only words he uttered that day in court. He sat silently in the mahogany prisoner's box, only his pale, motionless face visible above the high red railing. But others were present to tell his story...