Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first battle would not be fought on the field of civil rights. Before that issue was joined, North and South faced a preliminary skirmish over a new anti-filibuster rule. Under the proposed rule, two-thirds of the Senate could limit debate on any motion or measure. Southern Senators, well knowing that this would spike their guns in the civil rights fight, were set to filibuster the anti-filibuster rule to death, and Harry Truman knew it when he gave his order to Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas...
...driver was ruddy-cheeked Stan Benham, chief of the Lake Placid fire department, who turned to bobsledding four years ago because he found ski-jumping too tame. When Benham said, "All right, let's go boys," all four took their positions for the push-off. Once in motion, with feet planted in stirrups and hands clutching straps, they tucked down their heads like monks in meditation and the sled picked up speed...
Pressure Group. In Crisfield, Md., as A. Wellington Tawes, speaking in the high school auditorium, finished making a motion to float a $1,500,000 bond issue for school repairs, the ceiling in the next room fell down, and the audience unanimously seconded Tawes's motion...
Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn welcomed television with some rolling prose for the New York Times Magazine: "The future of motion pictures, conditioned as it will be by the competition of television, is going to have no room for the deadwood of the present or the faded glories of the past." And a good thing, too, thought Goldwyn: "It will take brains instead of just money to make pictures...
Dangerous Dan, 28, now a $125-a-month orderly at a Mount Vernon (N.Y.) hospital, was enjoying the landslide he had set in motion. He still had a long legal row to hoe before collecting any of the $300,000. But he was not backing down. Said he last week: "I'm back in my own country now and I can't play ball. That's why I'm going through with this case...