Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West had not yet achieved a sense of direction. But it was an advance of sorts that it had acquired at least a sense of motion...
Rebels or Heroes. Pressing Labor's motion of censure, Nye Bevan was somewhat subdued, getting in only a passing crack at the Tories' "truculent nostalgia" for empire. He made his central point simply: "We will never be able to have a satisfactory military base on the island of Cyprus surrounded by a hostile civil population...
Like the "forward look" in new U.S. automobiles, the upswept bristles of Major Michael Woodfall's military mustache created an impression of dynamic motion even when the major himself was at ease. Alone his glorious mustache would have been enough to command the respect of the stoniest of Mayfair's headwaiters. But added to the mustache were such other facts as the fit of the Savile Row suits, which clung to his lithe frame with the easy perfection of a snakeskin, and the verve with which he followed hounds with the Cornwall Hunt...
...Council emphasized the charitable aspects of the games in question, and Lawrence H. Johnson '57 asserted that the motion represented a "tremendous service to Harvard and charity." Only two dissenting votes were cast...
Yale's Undergraduate Activities Council has tabled the motion and appointed a committee to investigate the question...