Word: moved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People were giggling during certain scenes in Casablanca that seemed to be a bit too real for them to take. I did not hear them giggling at Faces, and, perversely, I conclude that it is because the film was not real enough to move them to embarrassment...
...From the verb "busk," to move or shift about restlessly...
...proclivity for committing offensive fouls, Dover often finds himself sitting on the bench, leaving the offense to Chris Gallagher and, occasionally Eric Gustavson. If Gallagher, who is playing the best basketball of his career scores 32 points against Yale and Brown (Saturday night also at the IAB), he will move into 10th place on the all-time Harvard scoring list...
...confusion began three days later, when Finch unexpectedly announced that the districts could have a 60-day "grace" period: if they would integrate their schools within the 60 days, they would get all their Federal funds back--including those withheld during the grace period. Finch's move was unprecedented; Democratic cut-off decisions had never allowed the school districts to recover their lost funds retroactively...
Thurmond's satisfaction with the plan only intensified the dismay of civil rights forces. The liberal Atlanta Journal called the move "a costly Nixon retreat" that "slaps the face of every Southern school board . . . that has moved with great difficulty to obey the law." Six liberal Republicans in the Senate said that they hoped the decision didn't mean that Finch would flag on enforcement, and Senate Democrats threatened committee action if desegregation plans were left...