Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Times. In Dayton, business-college authorities decided to junk the tried-&-true practice sentence, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back," substitute "A quick movement of the enemy would jeopardize sixteen gun boats...
These had seen movement and heard...
Beyond the movement of Russian prisoners of war from west to east, there was still no apparent coordination of policy between the western allies and Russia. While the Russians were winning friends and influencing Germans in the east, Germans in the west were beginning to show open hostility to the occupying armies. In Nurnberg German women turned their backs on U.S. soldiers, sometimes openly sneered...
...Czar Alexander II, in consequence of our abolition movement, emancipated the serfs in Russia...
Well might Laski have recalled his own words to the Labor Party conference six months ago: "[I am] an example of that dangerous species in our movement who, so far as my knowledge goes, is rarely trusted and never eulogized-the species whose professional business is criticism and thought...