Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crockett (1-1, 6.06 ERA) showed off a high-80s fastball with excellent location and good movement and also threw his curveball effectively for swinging strikes. He breezed through the game in just one hour and 45 minutes...
...Ethnic Studies Action Coalition and the [Progressive Students' Labor Movement] will address progressive issues more fully than the U.C. ever can," Redmond said...
...also married four times, lost three elections to Parliament, founded a school and led the movement for nuclear disarmament. He was twice jailed and dismissed from three jobs for his pacifism and unconventional views on sex. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 and died two decades later at 97, a humane rationalist to the last...
...tests should be used to conduct a great sorting out of the population, so that young people would be assigned on the basis of their scores to particular levels in the school system, which would lead to corresponding socioeconomic destinations in adult life. The beginning of the IQ-testing movement overlapped with the eugenics movement--hugely popular in America and Europe among the "better sort" before Hitler gave it a bad name--which held that intelligence was mostly inherited and that people deficient in it should be discouraged from reproducing. The state sterilization that Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes notoriously endorsed...
...those groups, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence and the anti-sweatshop Progressive Student Labor Movement, got what they wanted the very same day, as the University took steps to address their concerns...