Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such well-intentioned enthusiasts as Teitgen tried to march too fast. This was just what the sponsors of the Strasbourg movement had feared might happen. Before he left for a breather at Nice, Churchill himself championed the go-slow view. "We must not attempt on our present electoral basis," he said, "to challenge the powers that belong to the duly constituted national parliaments founded directly upon universal suffrage. Such a course would be premature...I will not prejudge the work of the committee (drafting unification plans), but I hope they will remember Napoleon's saying 'A constitution must...
Then, in a lull after three hours of wild shooting, the chief spotted movement in the narrow space between the house and the next-door apartment-Craig was out and trying to get away. The chief opened fire and Craig, huddled in the deep shadows with a pistol in either hand, began shooting back. Two detectives stepped in, Tommy guns hammering, and Craig went down-shooting even as his body twitched under the blows of bullets. The big fight, in which five policemen, one child and one woman bystander had been wounded, was over...
...Opera composer views life from standpoint at odds with history. Knows work is artificial, ludicrous, does not care, or cannot help self . . . Soviet love of ballet quite different-freedom of movement, jumping, aspiring, etc. Probably otherwise under Czar." But such happy jottings were soon to be interrupted. At a mass press conference with Mussolini, Divver was jostled accidentally and raised a protesting voice; he was ejected, shouting and waving his fist, and at once became a hero back home. Too cowardly to refuse his accidental fame, Divver became Forward's expert on Italian affairs. Practice...
...resolution marks the high-water mark (to date) of the movement founded 15 years ago by that timeless gadfly of world government, Clarence Streit. He and his associates think that treaties and arms programs and economic-assistance plans are all doomed to fail unless free nations limit their sovereignty and enter a union similar to that created by the U.S. Constitution...
There are good reasons for distrusting the facile analogy between 13 homogeneous colonies and seven nations very different in historical background and present social philosophy. Yet it was a fact of some importance to the world that the federal-union movement was growing in the U.S. and that Kefauver's resolution had as large and as varied a cross-section of senatorial support...