Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been estimated. . . that enough shipping space has been conserved by putting this new method into practice to account for the movement of one Liberty class cargo ship sailing continuously for nine months without ever putting into port...
...ruined abbey on Mt. Cassino the Germans still clung lizardlike, watching every movement of Allied units and directing artillery fire on every attack...
...from the Scaffold. The Siqueiros Art for Victory movement got under way early last year in Chile, where Muralist Siqueiros fled while awaiting his trial. There he painted Death for the Invader, a mural regarded by the Modern Museum's Lincoln Kirstein as "the most important pictoric work since the Cubist Revolution of 1911." But peering down from his scaffold, Siqueiros observed that Latin American artists were doing nothing for the war, that they had lost touch with the masses, that Latin American governments had not given their artists a chance to develop. So he tore off a manifesto...
...Author. Lillian Smith is a vehement, forceful, articulate spokesman for a new Southern reformist movement that still needs to be explicitly defined. Of medium height, youthfully middleaged, with her prematurely grey hair piled high above her 'high forehead, she reached literary work and social reform way of music teaching in a Methodist missionary school in China, secretaryship to a city manager in Georgia, running the swanky girls' summer camp her father founded in Clayton, Ga., and editing a literary magazine...
...worth mentioning. It was just "a stuffed wolf," set up "by paid publicity agents [who] by exaggerating the doodling's in chalk of children playing on the streets . . . conjured up out of their imaginations the phantom of anti-Semitic hate." The whole thing, he said, was "a manufactured movement," created "for the deliberate purpose of besmirching the minority Catholic population...