Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convicted of resisting arrest and being disrespectful to the police, sentenced to 40 days in jail, the twelve awaited trial on the more serious charge: "movement of a subversive character against the constituted powers." Police were ordered to arrest Anibal Rios the moment he set foot in Panama. Vice President Rios stood on his constitutional rights ("Come what may, I am going to serve"), but discreetly remained in Colombia...
...full lips smiled with nervous sadness over strange teeth, and only the chin was allowed to rest a little from the forward-moving pace of his vitality. It afforded a slight pause in the breathless race to take in the rest. The next minute you realized that its backward movement was controlled with a fierceness that could defeat a Napoleon...
Shedd: "I think the war has had a sober ing effect on students. [But] this is a movement that has been gaining momentum for the past ten years...
...government would be forced to differentiate between actions which could he construed to mean "advocating" the overthrow of the government and those which would actually constitute participating in a seditious uprising. Not only would such a situation create an extremely knotty legal problem, but it would allow a revolutionary movement to gain considerable momentum, presumably enough so that it would have in the opinion of its proponents, at least, a reasonable chance of success, before the government should be allowed to protect itself. I do not believe that a government's protecting itself by means of a measure such...
...which always sweeps the country in time of war. The first reaction against the usual "laissez faire' 'policy has come with the propaganda campaign being waged by a department of Mayor Laguardia's "Office of U. S. Civilian Defense" known as the Division of Physical Education. "Hale America", a movement sponsored by this division and headed by Alice Marble and John B. Kelly, has already sent publicity to educational institutions...