Word: motionlessness
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...First India Round Table Conference the Native States' turbaned and bejeweled Rajas and Maharajas plumped for Federation, chiefly in order to be early on a bandwagon which they thought was sure to start. Today, five years later, India's potentates are getting restless on their motionless bandwagon seats. Significantly last week it became known that His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad, ''Richest Man In The World," now thinks he was "coerced" into approving Federation. Last week at New Delhi the trained seals of the Legislative Assembly pained Viceregal Seal-master Willingdon by voting...
Outside the convention hall a group of Negro intellectuals silently picketed for an anti-lynching resolution by standing motionless with ropes around their necks. Despite speeches, despite resolutions, despite picketing, by far and away the most important purpose of the Cummings Conference on Crime was to cement Federal and local police into "one great big family...
...French journalist's report on Spain's atrocities appearing in the weekly Je Suis Partout. This charged that Spanish nuns were raped indiscriminately in Asturias, that some 30 priests were butchered or "roasted alive slowly," that prisoners taken by the rebels were ordered to stand motionless for hours and shot when they finally moved. Most intriguing to the French investigator was the conduct of a "jealous Red Don Juan" finally captured by soldiers after he had sated his lust on numerous nuns...
Crack! The spectators twitched. The bullet leaped from a little copper-plated cannon, zipped into a target 50 ft. away. There was a sharp, short glow of pale blue light on the screen, where the watchers glimpsed the silhouette of the bullet, apparently motionless though it was traveling...
...over the Fatherland last week tourists leaped to their feet at sound of the Nazi anthem, raised their right arms as Nazi banners passed. They knew that five U. S. tourists who spoke no German had been beaten by Storm Troopers in quaint old Nuremberg for standing motionless and puzzled when ordered in German to salute...