Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendous upsurge of the national liberation movement ... in the Orient...
...credentials were irreproachable: he was Princeton '28, Republican, a grandson of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan. With other moneyed political innocents (and some toughened professionals), he plunged eagerly into the Fusion movement which made Fiorello La Guardia mayor of New York in 1934. The Little Flower made him his secretary, later gave him a couple of city posts, until the two reformers had a falling...
...announced his cabinet's decision to join the pact, a small mob of Communists in front of the Parliament building shouted, "Down with warmongers and wars!" and "There are pillars in Rome whereon to hang traitors!" They were joined by neo-Fascist youths (members of the Italian Social Movement). The neo-Fascists objected to the pact because it "betrayed the national interest," the Communists, because it served the national interest at the expense of Soviet Russia...
Before "the Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam . . . I took no part, or only a small part, in the 'ecumenical movement,' indeed had all kinds of criticisms to make of it, since all 'movements' as such have always been and still are somewhat suspect in my eyes. But in this case I must confess, using the words in their ordinary sense, 'My mind has changed...
Professor Francis M. Rogers, Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, who is backing the foreign-study movement before the faculty, explained it to the Council, emphasizing that the plan would not involve a sweeping depopulation of the House, but would be for a small group, with department consent...