Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most attractive Paraguayan girl came up and greeted me as an old friend. As we walked toward a backstreet café owned by some friends of hers she said she had been given a good description of me and had been instructed to tell me about the opposition movement and the current political situation of terror in Paraguay. Someone in the crowd at the café moved her to grab my arm and hustle me out of the place into a taxi, which we left a block from her home so the destination slip, which taxi drivers have to turn...
...difficulties of speaking the Chinese was that anything said to them was known to the whole world in 24 hours. Stalin agreed and said he did not think it was necessary to speak to the Chinese of these arrangements at this time." Stalin would first like to complete the movement of 25 divisions to the Siberian-Manchurian frontier. "Stalin said that the tentative arrangements concerning the Far East should be put in writing and this was accordingly done...
...dissolves into the beginning of the next. The action is continuous for 80 minutes' playing time. The flow of time is elegantly caught (in Technicolor) in the changing light on the Manhattan skyline, as seen through a huge window. This way of shooting necessitated split-second alertness in movement and timing. The professional movie camera is an enormous machine, but Hitchcock kept it moving on his smallish, crowded set as freely as a dancer. Furniture and whole chunks of set had to be whisked out of the camera's way as it prowled and pried among the players...
...Nizam authorized the formation of an organization called Majlis Ittehad-ul-Muslimin (Movement for Moslem Unity), which has become Hyderabad's dominant political party, and more. Its private army called Razakars (Volunteers) now numbers 150,000. Head of the Ittehad and field marshal of the Razakars is 46-year-old Kasim Razvi. Razvi is against submission to Indian rule in any degree. "Death with the sword in hand," he tells his followers, "is always preferable to extinction by a mere stroke of the pen." Razvi's position is so strong that the Indian government calls him "the Nizam...
...since Karl Krueger left it in 1932. Crusty, goat-bearded Sir Thomas Beecham raged at Seattle as an "esthetic dustbin," but for two years during the war, he had musicians and sellout audiences on the edges of their seats (he sometimes stopped the orchestra in the middle of a movement to lecture the audience on its manners). Such other conductors as Basil Cameron and Nikolai Sokoloff had left Seattle shaking their heads and wringing their hands. Halfempty houses, rickety budgets, constant wrangling of the socialite directors or the insubordination among the musicians had made life unbearable. The last conductor...