Word: moved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neighborly cooperation is a Nordic tradition, and Scandinavia's parliamentary representatives meet annually to coordinate their countries' laws. Doctors or teachers can practice anywhere in Scandinavia. Citizens move freely across borders, and criminals sentenced in another country can even serve their jail terms in their homeland. Now, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are moving to carry their friendship a step further by creating Nordek-a Nordic economic community...
...public concern over civil liberties and possible abuse of constabulary power, Maclnnes knew that he did not like policemen. So, in Mr. Love and Justice, he contrived a minuet about how the police and vice prey on each other. Born policemen, Maclnnes believes, think like born criminals. Both move through the world of mugs with alert and total mistrust...
...metal on his leg. Inevitably, the hot shots became permanently over-adrenalized. In addition to a brace of hog-legs, anxious brawlers carried as many as four "stingy guns" concealed in their clothing. Even the great Wyatt Earp grew so tense, one story goes, that his bowels refused to move properly for a year while he was Marshal of Tombstone. At the climax of one showdown, Wild Bill Hickok, the iciest killer of them all, got so rattled that he shot to death a deputy who was rushing to his rescue...
...novel does come fitfully to life, usually in some transitional scene where the author is forced to view the society in which her New Yorkers still move. A wedding is done well; so is a smoothed-over gaffe at a dinner party and an old ballerina with her beauty in ruins but her vanity intact. The suspicion grows during the slow passage through this glum volume that it is not rightfully a psychological novel, but a strayed social one. It moves repeatedly in that direction, and always the author drags it back. That is her privilege, of course. Still...
Dartmouth will be extremely anxious to win this game because previously undefeated Cornell was upset by Army 5-3 on Tuesday. A victory would move the Indians within one game of the league title...