Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chevrolet sedan. Diagnostician Emma Teller squatted at Mary's bedside, dusted corn pollen on her upturned right palm, made the zigzag lightning sign with her left forefinger and crooned a ritual chant. As she passed her hand over Mary's body, it began to tremble. From its motion (ni'dilniih) Emma concluded that Mary had somehow offended the Wind Spirits. Her prescription: a chishiji, a two-day sing led by a medicine...
...book, Seen Any Good Movies Lately? (Doubleday; $3-75), ex-Critic Zinsser takes up in general terms the question that has had New York newsmen buzzing for weeks: Was Bill Zinsser kicked upstairs because of pressure from advertisers? "It is generally assumed in New York motion picture circles." Zinsser writes, "that a movie studio can soften an adverse review-in advance-by bringing pressure on a newspaper. Unhappily, there is some truth in this belief." He insists that no such pressure dislodged him, says that he asked to be relieved. But he notes that his removal coincided with...
...raspberry soda-very picturesque in Metro-color. And during a mob war, when a punk catches a packet, does he do the conventional clutch-and-crumple? Not at all. He explodes in the moviegoer's face like a ripe tomato-quite a bit of business in fast motion...
With that terse exchange in the flag cabin of the heavy cruiser Baltimore at Pearl Harbor in July 1944, the great and fateful campaign for the recapture of the Philippines was set in motion. By campaign's end, whatever chance Japan had of winning the war in the Pacific was irrevocably lost. The battle for the Gulf of Leyte decisively shifted the fortunes of war, and it is this action that dominates the twelfth volume of Samuel Eliot Morison's massively conceived and brilliantly executed account of U.S. naval operations in World War II (to run through...
...When the motion was reintroduced, it passed unanimously.... Walking back to his office, Briggs felt mildly elated. Perhaps Hall and Ford had had a good idea after all. Certainly it did the department no harm for the administration and even the public to know they wished to honor one to whom honor...