Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious fact is that this very language was provoked by a strong movement in this country to aid the establishment of a democratic government in Greece, which was then under the rule of an "imperialistic" power named Turkey. Monroe wanted to offer some definite aid to the Greek rebels of 1823-but John Quincy Adams (the General Marshall of that day) persuaded...
Toxic ammo of the anti-fly movement is good new DDT, which will be sprayed on cattle, barns, downtown restaurants, garbage pails, old-fashioned outhouses. But the state authorities warn that DDT alone will not make Iowa flyless. Flies breed in any sort of decaying organic matter. Eggs hatch and adult flies develop in about eight days. DDT will kill flies, but only strict sanitation will keep the fly reserves from mounting a counteroffensive...
...fourth Marquess of Salisbury; in London. Son of Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, he was twice Lord Privy Seal, was noted for his two clashes with David Lloyd George (he recommended the rejection of his budget in 1909, and in 1922 headed a Conservative movement which overthrew Lloyd George's Government...
Lawrence R. Klepper '49, who initiated the movement to establish the group, declared that "its purpose will be to promote justice, harmony, and understanding among the various religious faiths at the College...
...FitzGerald retorted that he had merely "a talent for dullness." He rose early, spent his mornings reading "old books" and doing occasional writing; in the afternoon he casually drew and painted. Evenings, he smoked, played the spinet, and entertained a few local callers. "Day follows day with unvaried movement," he declared; "there is the same level meadow with geese upon it always lying before my eyes: the same pollard oaks: with now and then the butcher or the washerwoman trundling...