Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa's President Virgil Hancher. Said he: "Somewhere along the pathway of progress the art of contemplation has been lost. The Society of Friends, certain Roman Catholics, and an occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art. They retain anchorage in a sea of ceaseless motion, of disquiet and drifting. You can make it a rule of life to withdraw each day into quiet and contemplation. You have but one life, and a short one, at your disposal. Only in leisure can you savor...
...very young. At the halfway mark, balding, 40-year-old Ernest Weber, a Manhattan delivery man, was bustling along like a jet-propelled dowager in a huff. One of the favorites, he used a lot of hip-shimmy ("It gives you a longer stride"), and piston-like arm motion ("I try to think I am pulling on a rope"). His eyes were busy too, watching a German refugee (now a U.S. citizen) named Henry Laskau, the man in the lead. Laskau, who took up walking as a sport only two years ago, used less wiggle and a giant stride...
...hundred graduates and the class of 1948, as guests, broke out unbrellas and hiked through Saturday's drizzle to see the show, which included songs and skits based on the fashions of the 1920's; a motion picture of news events from 1919 to 1927, and a reel of Rudolph Valentine in "The Son of the Sheik...
...looking grimmer than usual in a pair of dark glasses, proposed a different plan-an immediate, unconditional cease-fire order which would in effect brand the Arabs as aggressors. Amid cheers from the spectators' gallery, U.S. Delegate Warren Austin sided with Russia. It was only after the Russian motion had been voted down by the Council that the U.S. switched its support to the British proposal. Ernie Bevin's formula thus became the basis last week of U.N.'s latest approach to a Palestine solution...
...Fleegle's evil eye is usually thwarted by the overpowering goodness of Mammy Yokum's counter-whammy. But in all its meetings the Security Council has not been able to find an antidote for the Russian basilisk. This week, true to his promise, Gromyko double-vetoed the motion on Czechoslovakia...