Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movement got its start last year when portly Dr. Teiji Ugai, 63, president of Shizuoka Pharmaceutical College, was worrying over reports that the tea plant avidly takes up strontium, including radioactive strontium 90 (TIME, Oct. 27) and that port of New York authorities had detected radioactivity in Japanese tea. Shizuoka prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, grows more than half Japan's tea, and the industry was already ailing before radiation sickness...
...identify. A tank sounds very much like the clanking of its tracks. A wheeled vehicle makes a whine that increases in pitch as its speed increases. A man walking toward the radar sounds like "ump-ump-ump,"-each "ump" being Tipsy's reaction to the relatively fast movement of his legs as he takes a step. A woman's skirt has no effect, but she moves her arms differently and swings her hips more, so the radar sound that comes from her has more frills, lacking the plain solidity of the male...
Francis Xavier University, who led the Antigonish Movement, a combination of adult education and practical economics, among impoverished farmers and fishermen of Nova Scotia, organized cooperatives in the 19303 that quickly prospered, now earn more than $100 million a year and have spread as far as India and Ceylon; of cancer; in Antigonish...
...stutters through a performance. Mr. Kennedy should be informed that nothing makes an audience more uneasy than an actor fumbling for his lines. It reeks of incompetence or laziness. The remainder of the cast, distributed among the lesser roles, would benefit from several more courses in voice and movement...
...evening's novelty was Tucker's own Suite for Violin and Piano (1956). This four-movement work is a good deal more serious in character than most suites; it even dares to end with a slow movement. Though modern in style, it is still quite tonal, and its varied timbres are always fascinating...