Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling Christian Democrats firmly rejected the kidnapers' demand to bargain for an exchange of jailed terrorists. They did propose that the international Catholic relief organization, Caritas, act as intermediary to seek other "possible ways" to save Moro's life. In a dramatic eleventh-hour move, Pope Paul appealed directly to the kidnapers. "I beg you on my knees, free the Honorable Aldo Moro simply, unconditionally," the Pope wrote in his own microscopic handwriting on his personal notepaper, "not so much because of my humble and affectionate intercession, but because of his dignity as a common brother in humanity...
...only as terrorism grows in frequency and scale through success. Thus experts argue that one way to control terrorism-eliminating it entirely would appear to be impossible-is for a government to declare a strong, stated policy of how it will respond to terrorism, and then, when it occurs, move swiftly, firmly and with the confidence of its people...
Countless thousands of little girl ducklings each year paddle into this wrenching regimen, known politely as ballet class. Many are shoved by doting mommies and daddies with an atavistic sense of how young ladies are supposed to move. A single-minded few are driven by the demonic notion that they could, some day, be swans. Most are mistaken. Once in a great while though, the real thing comes along, and word rapidly spreads through one of the world's oldest permanent floating meritocracies. Leningrad hears it, and so do Stuttgart, Covent Garden and New York: a star is born...
...times, and Monnen's Cockney accent seems to have a mind of its own, coming and going at will. But there's no need to carp. Acting in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera is mainly a question of facial expression and stage poise. All of the principals mime and move exceedingly well, and as for the chorus--suffice to say that they deliver a very fine ensemble performance...
...farce "The Front Page" by turning Hildy Johnson into a woman, and one who was trying to excise herself from the male society she had tailored herself into. She can't do it. Hecht and MacArthur's play proved that it was not indestructable when Billy Wilder made it move like a sludge barge. "His Girl Friday" is louder and faster than any other movie ever made. Cary Grant did everything right as Walter Burns; it must have been a great surprise to see him work in this sort of part after the more submissive work he'd been used...