Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's East African Uganda Protectorate, African leaders try for independence, but also find things closer at hand to fight against. Three months ago, disgruntled Buganda political leaders formed the Uganda National Movement and declared an economic boycott against non-African bus companies, shops, and products. Picketing gangs stood outside rural Indian stores to keep farmers away by force, to the delight of African merchants down the road, who promptly raised their prices. Two hundred Africans who own cars have made a mint as taxi operators since a boycott was declared against the white-owned bus line...
...like the movement of a glacier, the progress of the Geneva talks was all but undetectable to the naked eye. If, after Herter, Couve and Lloyd returned from John Foster Dulles' funeral, the conference continued at the same profitless pace, the idea just might occur to everyone that little more could be achieved by talking to the head man himself...
...that one finds it hard to believe that they were modish sixty years ago. The swatches of material designed by Richard Riemerschmid would fit wonderfully in a modern interior. The chair and three-legged table by Hector Guimard, the leader of the Parisian branch of the international Art Nouveau movement, combine tasteful flourishes with beautifully smooth wood surfaces and simple, elegant forms. In an elaborate Guimard picture frame, though, the typical Nouveau tendency towards overdecoration is manifest...
...this could be, Lucius was not sure, for although he was certain that his fondness was not unanswered, their relationship had not yet reached the speaking level. Just then he herd the friendly movement of Miss Schroeder's mocassins coming through the stacks. He knew it was her by the way she let her left heel shuffle invitingly on the floor as she came...
Angelus Temple and the Foursquare Gospel did not pass away with Aimee. Today the movement flourishes, with 113,-ooo members, 720 U.S. churches and 800 missionary stations round the world. In charge of the sect: Aimee's quiet, unassuming son, Rolf McPherson, 46, who shuns publicity...