Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy Fireman Paul Basom swore that guards ordered him "to have a bowel movement in front of other prisoners. Then one man poured lighter fluid under me and lighted it. When it got hot I ran." Basom said he was later ordered by another guard to put out a burning cigarette with his bare feet...
...Bootstrap attracted 169 new plants in the first five years (v. 19 in the previous five years), is now bringing in ten a month. To arguments that Puerto Rico owes its success to its position as a low-wage part of the U.S. customs area and to the free movement of goods between the island and the U.S., Moscoso replied: "Puerto Rico had this same kind of economic relationship with the U.S. from 1917 to 1940−and yet nothing much happened...
Thus began the first enduring movement in the Church of England toward the religious life for priests, the life of celibacy, silence, and humble living...
Sisterhoods at Oxford, Wantage, and Clewer had already offered, with the blessing of Anglican bishops a number of sanctuaries for women. Great communities dedicated to the saints had sprung up all over England. It remained only for an organized movement of men to develop. The Society of St. John the Evangelist, or the Cowley Fathers, provided that organization...
...radical movement arises, which Conant thinks unlikely if Germany's economy remains stable, it will not be connected with Nazism. He noted that United States support of NATO and a stable world economy will also diminish the chance of the appearance of such a movement...