Word: movingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The actress playing Mrs. Drudge, the maid of all work, was moving the thing towards me, foot by foot, in order to dust behind it. I was supposed to be lying a foot or two in front of it as the action began, but in my nervousness I had miscalculated...
Iowa's Finnemore compares the movement of the electrons in a superconductor to a crowd moving across a football field. "If they act as individual particles," he explains, "they will bump into each other and scatter. That's the equivalent of electrical resistance. But suppose someone starts counting cadence, and...
Nakasone attempted to disarm his critics by extending a few small olive branches. The Prime Minister said he had ordered the Finance Minister and the Bank of Japan to continue lowering interest rates to boost the Japanese economy and enable firms and consumers to buy more foreign products. The disclosure...
Rush, a lean, easy-moving, mustached fellow of 46, got his start as a folkie in Cambridge, Mass., when he was a sophomore at Harvard. Joan Baez was beginning to make a name in Cambridge then, and both of them played at a folk hangout called Club 47.
But despite the violence and legal challenges to Botha's policies, the results of this week's parliamentary elections were not in serious doubt. The National Party, which has ruled the country since 1948, was expected to win again, and perhaps even register a slight increase in its 116-seat...