Word: motionlessness
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...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...
When the big night came last week, a sell-out audience in Louisville's Columbia Auditorium warmed up on Wagner and Beethoven. After intermission, the musicians took their places upstage behind a translucent curtain. As the music began somberly, Dancer Graham was discovered standing motionless on the stage's apron...
...well of a federal courtroom in Manhattan sat the tall man in the neat suit, motionless but intent. Beside him sat his wife. For the better part of three days last week the eyes of the pair-Alger and Pris cilia Hiss-were fixed on the man in the witness chair...