Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calls jiu-jitsu "aesthetic dancing" because the contestants move in rhythm, keeping in step. "A wrestler won't keep in step; he'll change his attack. And a jiu-jitsu man cannot work unless his opponent agrees to keep in step...
...drove Woodrow Wilson wild on the League of Nations issue, to ask the Secretary of the Treasury for a full accounting of the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, to see if any financial commitments were implied by the President's program. Senator Lodge's move was followed by a declaration from Senator Gerald ("Neutrality") Nye, who announced: "I ... give notice of withdrawal from all executive [secret] committee meetings of the Military Affairs Committee . . . until such time as ... the record, devoid of any military secrets . . . shall be available to the people...
...already well known to Boston track fans; for last year it was he who won the John J. Hallahan Memorial Trophy for the outstanding performance of the meet. Joe Donnelly, Franny King, and Don Donahue complete the mile quartet. Donahue, normally a hurdler, replaced Hobart Lerner in a surprise move this week. All Hanlon, Jack McCluse, Joe Bradley, and Ros Brayton will pass the baton in the two mile event...
...Motto: Defense." Clearly Mr. Chamberlain had swapped the unpopular nag of appeasement for the glossy war-horse of rearmament, a wise move in view of the fact that 1939 is almost certainly a General Election year...
...roof crashed. Outside in the heaving plaza, heavy brick-walled buildings toppled into the street. The massive front of the Governor's Palace swayed forward, and fell in a cascade on several passing cars. Thousands of rotos and their families, caught in their beds, had no chance to move before their adobe homes fell on them. Thousands more got into the streets only to be buried beneath falling buildings...