Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emma, bred off the Cape Verde Islands, was first reported by ships on Sept. 11. She was then 800 miles east of the Antilles and traveling toward the U.S. at the rate of 20 m.p.h. From then on, diligent U.S. hurricane-hunters kept track of her every movement...
...nomination was not possible and some of the other governors nodded agreement. Take Massachusetts, said Bradford: its delegates were going to be for Favorite Son Leverett Saltonstall as long as he was in the running. Bob Bradford hastened to add that there was no thought of a stop-Dewey movement. That was all right with Dewey; his mission to Springfield was to sound out New England leaders for second-choice support, to make friends and influence people. He got no promises, and no rebuffs...
...Flower had been damned as a buffoon and a tyrant, praised as a great liberal and an exacting administrator. He had performed miracles of political acrobatics. But New Yorkers had grown to think of him not so much as a political force but as a manifestation of sound and movement-shrill, vehement, energetic and cacophonous, as oddly comforting as the roar of the subway and the bleat of taxi horns...
Also in Chicago, Texas' General Jonathan Wainwright (ret.) simultaneously denied that he knew of any draft-Wainwright-for-the-Senate movement and declared that he would be happy...
Joseph Stalin issued a birthday proclamation: "[Moscow represents] the liberation movement of toiling mankind from capitalist slavery. . . . Agents of imperialism are trying, in this way and that, to provoke a new war. [But] it is known that peace-loving peoples are looking to Moscow with hope as the capital of a great peace-loving power and as a mighty pillar of peace...