Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showdown fight caught Bulganin too far out between yes and no: he accepted an invitation to chair a Presidium meeting after the Kremlin opposition had objected to Khrushchev's presiding. He has been on the skids ever since. After Khrushchev fought off the Presidium's move to replace him by summoning the whole Central Committee to overrule them, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich were promptly denounced as "antiparty intriguers" and banished to the sticks; Presidium Members Saburov and Pervukhin were set down soon after...
Stabbing the air with his fingers, shaping if like a symphony conductor, gaunt Johannes Strijdom lived up to his billing. "We Afrikaners," he thundered, "believe that God put us on the southern tip of the African continent to establish, build and maintain white civilization. We must destroy any move toward bastardization. For this reason the government has introduced apartheid [racial segregation] into every possible sphere." At the opposition United Party, which draws its support largely from South Africa's 1,200,000 citizens of British descent, Strijdom leveled a deadly charge: "They are imperialists more concerned with British interests...
...blinked at an extraordinary scene: an old woman tending grandchildren, rebel troops milling around, guitarists strumming, and under a dim kerosene lamp, rocking in a chair, surrounded by kids seated on upturned 5-gal. cans, the bearded Rebel Castro. In the next days and nights, always on the move, I talked at length to Fidel Castro and got a thorough look at his ragtag, fanatic force...
Also in the tour repertory: The Partisans, an episode in the lives of a group of World War II guerrilla fighters, in which the black-clad dancers move in startling imitation of galloping horsemen to the music of a Georgian Lezghinka; Spring Dances from the Ukrainian Suite, which opens with a slow, weaving dance evocation of the melancholy a Ukrainian girl feels when her lover leaves for the front, ends with a bravura blaze of tremendous Gopak leaps as the lover returns triumphant to the village. In contrast with scenes more or less mirroring Soviet life, there are evocations...
...date, Clark's rugged round of rock 'n' roll for TV has left him no time for Hollywood. In fact, he is so busy rolling in the money as the Pied Piper of the teen-agers that when his wife Barbara and their year-old son move this summer into a new beach house that Clark's jack has built on the Maryland shore, he simply won't have time to join them...