Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shell-scarred, balconied Manila ballroom Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita, onetime "Tiger of Malaya" and "Beast of Bataan," was on trial for his life. He looked incredibly tame and safe, a froglike man in a green uniform who sat shaven-headed, sleepy-eyed, almost motionless at a long table. Occasionally he smiled. In the ordered courtroom uniformed attorneys shuffled papers, entered objections, laboriously introduced exhibits...
...Prime Minister's door, knocked impatiently, turned the glass knob. Winston Churchill stood beside his desk, reading a sheaf of reports. The secretary handed him a note. "Sir," he quavered, "President Roosevelt died a short time ago." The Prime Minister's face paled. He sat down, motionless for five full minutes. Then he lifted his head, with the heaviness of a man who is suddenly very lonely. He whispered: "Get me the Palace." He informed the King, then called Washington, then labored with sad heart far into the night over the words he would speak in memoriam...
Outside, New York's great central artery, Fifth Avenue, lay empty and silent, cleared of all traffic. The crowds stood bareheaded and motionless; there was hardly a sound as the funeral procession started on its long way to the place beside his wife, under a simple headstone in a Queens cemetery. He would not be forgotten; to millions of Americans, as long as they lived, the jingling strains of The Sidewalks of New York would bring back the memory of The Happy Warrior of the Fabulous...
...life-his unrequited love for his landlord's daughter. She was "pale as the primrose," and once looked at Hazlitt with so fetching an expression in her eyes that he never really recovered. Of her remarkable eyes Hazlitt wrote later: "I might have spied in their glittering motionless surface, the rocks and quicksands that awaited me below." After months of fruitless wooing, Hazlitt learned that the landlord's daughter loved another man. He asked her to describe her lover. She pointed to a statuette on Hazlitt's mantelpiece. "[He is like] that little image," she said...
Four men and a dog stood at attention in the bright sun that splashed the church courtyard in the Italian town of Pietra-vairano. Ack-ack crackled in the distance but the group remained motionless. The Division General was reading...