Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abstention on Expansion. Fur flew on a proposal to admit Australia, Brazil and Yugoslavia to the Council's Central Committee. The Russians objected, apparently because no instructions had been received from Moscow, even to inclusion of friendly Yugoslavia. After the motion was defeated, Russia requested that her negative vote be converted to an abstention...
McKnight's motion was passed by the King's Crown Advisory Board, which has general direction of Columbia's undergraduate organizations. It was also accepted by the Emergency Council. A faculty committee of three was formed, with McKnight as its chairman, and members of the Spec staff were invited to submit their qualifications for managing board positions to this novel body...
...wheels were in motion to turn the atomic bomb plants into something of benefit to the world...
...Churchill had to leave the building by a side door, come in another door to a little anteroom. Truman and Stalin were in other anterooms. Complicated signals set them all in coordinated motion. Stalin would roll in with his bearish gait; Churchill plodded; Clement Attlee walked sedately ; Truman almost skipped in (which was all right because his anteroom was just a little farther away...
...lively and eager in movie terms. Hollywood's streets, outskirts, diners and small bars, with which the picture is liberally sprinkled, give it the special vitality of actual time and place. And the film is capable of poetry as well as naturalism. (Sample: a subtle slowing of motion to heighten the sinister mood of a scene in which the neurotic writer, in order to torture his wife, tosses poisoned food to some flying gulls...