Word: moving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, the fatherly Bureau of Indian Affairs had been trying to coax Oregon's Celilo Indians into abandoning their evil-smelling fishing village, perched on the cliffs above the Columbia River, 95 miles east of Portland. If they would move out, the Government promised, new quarters would be provided across the road, with concrete decks where visiting fishermen could pitch their wigwams, honest-to-Manitou houses for the permanent residents, and inside plumbing...
...Celilos took a suspicious view of the white man's benevolence. Rheumatic, 86-year-old Chief Tommy Thompson protested that it would be bad medicine to move; others grumbled that the wind wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner grumped: "They are not so bad when we observe your city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards...
...Government persisted. Last week, after a look at the first few houses in the project, the Celilos decided that the move might not be such a bad idea after all. Admitted Chief Thompson, who had already spent a night in his: "It didn't rain...
...Israelis were unmoved by a polite but firm note from the U.S., which had opposed the U.N. internationalization plan as highhanded and unrealistic, but now warned Israel against an "inflammatory move." The shift of Israel's capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem had been long and carefully prepared; several government departments had quietly moved to the Holy City months ago. Last week, in his big black Cadillac, the Premier himself motored resolutely to Jerusalem. During his 90-minute drive through settlements along the way, hundreds of Israelis cheered...
When silt sinks slowly to the bottom of an ocean or lake, the magnetic particles in it line up with the earth's magnetic field like tiny compass needles. When the silt hardens into rock, the magnetic particles are "frozen" so that they cannot move. The Carnegie scientists found that even when the rock layer is folded by geological forces, the magnetic particles keep their alignment, pointing accurately around the curves of the folds. Even in layers known to be 200 million years old, the rock keeps its magnetism...