Word: movers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem to be sniffing their gloomy way toward the ultimate one-liner: "All flesh is as grass." Or "Id is not just another big word." Or maybe: "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." The perfect allegorical hero for De Vries might be a Dutch Calvinist furniture mover from Chicago (like De Vries' father), carrying the world on his shoulders-especially the heavy end with the lode of guilt...
Sometimes litigants tend to ramble or drag in irrelevancies, like the mover who, although being sued for damaging some furniture, tried to discredit his opponent by reporting that she once accused him of stealing her underwear. Occasionally, however, somebody shows a gift for pointed lawyerly sarcasm. One defendant had smashed part of his neighbor's blaring rooftop alarm to silence it while the neighbor was away. The neighbor, seeking reimbursement, brought along the alarm and a pillow in a red satin case to show that the sound could have been stifled without damaging the system. "Your Honor," said...
...paper then quoted Lady Falkender, who as Marcia Williams was Wilson's private secretary, as calling Mountbatten a 'prime mover" in the plot...
Today he is the prime mover in China's most prestigious think tank. Says Huan: "All together, we have 8,000 researchers Our economic researchers have been cooperating with the economic ministries to find out ways to solve numerous problems. We lave even organized a discussion on what is the purpose of human life. After 30 years of political turmoil, our thinking is confused. Our young people in particular don't know what to do in this world. We have an open forum for them to discuss these things so they can draw their own conclusions...
Davies, lead singer, composer and prime mover of the Kinks, has always been a jester who sings as if he enjoys a good joke, a long cry and a stiff drink, sometimes all at once. Early Davies songs such as A Well Respected Man and Dedicated Follower of Fashion were sardonic assaults on both sides of what was then called the generation gap and what now seems less like a chasm than a split but sewable seam...