Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time this movement got under way, birds had already evolved into modern types. Dr. Wolfson thinks that some of them had learned to make comparatively short seasonal migrations between feeding and nesting places, that generation after generation, for millions of years, they stuck to the same routes. New oceans appeared and widened under their beating wings. New mountains reared up. The climate changed as glaciers crept forward, then melted. The birds, more steadfast than the earth, kept to their ancient flight plan, though their journeys became much longer than at first and twice as long as need...
...Hell's Angels that Hughes first revealed his intense preoccupation with the female bosom (in one scene, Miss Harlow's neckline swooped almost to the navel). But it was in The Outlaw that his interest reached its fullest flower. In the flogging scene, when the bosom movement seemed unsatisfactory, Hughes decided that it was an engineering problem, called for his drawing board, designed a new brassiere for his star, Jane Russell. Thereafter the scene was shot to his entire liking...
Brief Revolt. Delegates were confused. Ohio had been nursing hopes for Bricker. Started by Arizona, a movement to nominate Harold Stassen rippled across the floor. Halleck rushed over to Arizona, warned: "You're sticking your necks in a buzz saw." The ripple died. Warren was nominated by acclamation...
Churchmen of all faiths were beginning to suspect that the movement toward a united Protestantism might paradoxically increase the scandal of Christian disunity by making the cleavage between Protestant and Catholic sharper than ever. But others, like Italian Waldensian Leader Jean Gonnet, felt that the Vatican would be just as happy about the Protestant movement toward unity as the most ecumenically minded Protestant. Said Professor Gonnet: "Rome is well pleased to see other Christians marching towards unity, because in her opinion this will inevitably lead to a return to the fold under one sole shepherd-the Pope...
...great, lost creatures of the poem move within skull-stark El-sinore-like thoughts and the treacherous shadows of thoughts. (Roger Purse's sets, as nobly severe and useful as the inside of a gigantic cello, are the steadiest beauty in the film. Next best: the finely calculated movement and disposal of the speakers, against his sounding boards...