Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office in Brussels unarmed Resistance men & women shouted: "Resign!" Before the Parliament Buildings, guarded by gendarmes with fixed bayonets, marched noisy hecklers. Despite the ban on mass rallies, excited crowds assembled in the Cirque Royal, tumultuously cheered the Communist ex-ministers, denounced the Government measures against the Resistance movement...
Since he fled from his sinister home, Dr. Petiot had joined the resistance movement, got himself commissioned as a captain at Valmy barracks under the name of Henry Valery. Police caught him by comparing a letter written by F.F.I. Captain Valery with samples of Dr. Petiot's handwriting. Dr. Petiot said that his 50-odd victims were collaborators and Germans whom he had murdered for the sake of France. But the police said they were Frenchmen murdered for the Gestapo...
...Bonde thereupon took the fish to Cape Town's Youngsfield Aerodrome, where he hung it among modern meteorological instruments. During the next few months, meteorologists will consider every movement of the fish in the light of instrument readings. Dr. von Bonde doubts that his informal aquarium tests really proved "anything definite," but he announced hopefully: "The Seevarkie must have a fair chance to prove its case...
When the Rust brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more evolutionary than revolutionary. Last week the movement passed a milestone. Near Clarksdale, Miss., where John Rust began a tryout of an improved picker, a pioneering plantation harvested the first commercial cotton crop ever produced, from planting to baling, entirely by machine...
...March-on-Washington Movement." Also nonviolent mass marches around plants and offices whose owners discriminate against Negroes, followed by picketing, boycotting. Southern Negroes should set aside a day when they refuse to send their children to Jim Crow schools, boycott streetcars, busses, trains...