Word: moving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago I remember being startled at the news that this country had willingly opened its doors to some highly skilled German inventors and research scientists, who had devoted their lives to building up the efficient Nazi war machine. No voice of protest . . . was raised against such a move...
Professor Menzel will move to the high-altitude observatory in Climax, Colorado, which he founded in 1940. Here he will continue his work on the corona and on the sun's effects on the earth...
...much for the curiosities of the phrase. It becomes ominous when it symbolizes a cynical attitude in this country toward any overture from Russia. Undoubtedly it is wise to move carefully--to study Stalin's statement thoroughly, in terms of both its phrasing and its timing. But this study should be to determine the nature of the negotiations, not whether they ought to be attempted. So long as there is the slightest glimmer of a possibility that the Russians may be seriously interested in casing the present tension, then they should be given a chance to do so. And certainly...
While the man in the street curses and stumbles in the slush, the ski team is getting ready to move into its annual period of between-term activity on New England's choicest slopes...
...much an unhappy fool as he is a rascal. When the hero's sister writes a tattling letter, Gilliat balances the tattler's meanness with a compassionate picture of her miserable marriage. Besides endowing his work with warmth and humanity, Director Gilliat knows how to make it move; the hero's hunt through London for his wife is a series of hairbreadth misses, played at the galloping pace of a horse opera...