Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Taylor did not arrive with 4-43 ... nor did Rita Hayworth arrive at Radcliffe ... t'was sure batted around for awhile .. Tip--are those Company B boys handy with their dukes ... from the display Friday night last, God help the Axis when the boys get underway ... The mass movement the last few days to secure living quarters ashore for next month has been something...
Albert Guigui arrived half-starved from France. To the Fighting French in London, he brought assurance of the support of the once-powerful French trade-union movement. When he met the London press, he looked like an unkind caricature of Charlie Chaplin...
...raft in the Pacific with Eddie Rickenbacker's shipwrecked airmen, Lieut. James C. Whittaker saw the stirrings of a national movement. "We all saw Johnny reading his Bible, his freckled face solemn as an owl's and the sun glinting on his red hair," he wrote in his new book We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing. "No one kidded...
...Movement for Perfection. At some of them, gunners swing fixed shotguns in turrets just like the ones they will use in bombers. At others they fire from a truck going 30 miles an hour around an elliptical track while birds sail past at every angle. In the fourth week, having learned to service machine guns and repair stoppages, they go on to ground machine-gun practice, firing .30s and .50s at targets carried over an irregular, baffling course by mechanically controlled jeeps...
Talented Actor George Coulouris (Julius Caesar, Watch on the Rhine) plays Richard as if he were just a matter of feverish impatience and petty willfulness, ignores his sardonic mind, his serpentine guile, his high pride of villainy. Jerky and rapid of speech, Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame-like in movement, he exudes evil rather than expresses it. He is too unimpressive for a figure that has to carry the whole load of the play on his crooked back...