Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes later a crisp, careful military movement put the nine Negro children safely into Central High School. A jeep rolled through the barricade at 16th Street and Park Avenue, followed by an Army station wagon and another jeep. The Negroes piled out of the station wagon. Three platoons came on the double across the school grounds, deployed in strategic positions. Another platoon lined up on either side of the Negroes, escorted them inside the building. There was dead silence around Central High School...
...cadre had already been rejected out of hand by the Algerian National Liberation Movement, but it might have had an effect on other war-weary Algerian Moslems. Now, even should it pass and Bourgès-Maunoury remain in office, the loi-cadre no longer stood as a shadowy promise of a political solution to the rebellion. Instead, it is a document which says that France intends to hang on in Algeria, whatever the rest of the world says...
...scabbards in a cross on the floor and perform the Gillie Callum, or individual sword dance (which is said to date from 1054). Their arms held aloft like antlers, their thumbs and forefingers held delicately together, the dancers leap around and over the swords in a crescendo of movement that usually sets the crowd to whooping, yelling and stomping. Toward the end, a solo piper-spotlighted on a platform as though he were walking a battlement-softly plays Lights Out, and with a final scream of pipes and whang of drums the Watch marches...
...thousands of children of a chance to read one of the finest books ever written in this country and an all-time childhood classic. More important, it is an unfortunate example in minority censorship. The step, like the earlier panning of authors suspected of a pink tinge, represents a movement away from thoughtful and provocative education and toward an insipid parochialism in the public schools...
Before he concludes, Author Durant pays tribute to the Catholic Church's own movement to reform itself. Says Durant in a passage typical of his style and temper: "The Counter Reformation succeeded in its principal purposes. Men continued, in Catholic as much as in Protestant countries, to lie and steal, seduce maidens and sell offices, kill and make war. But the morals of the clergy improved, and the wild freedom of Renaissance Italy was tamed to a decent conformity with the pretensions of mankind . . . All in all, it was an astonishing recovery, one of the most brilliant products...