Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folded her hands before her in the Hindu posture of namqskar. It was a gesture which would have horrified and infuriated a proper memsahib of the old school; and few Western women could have attempted it without seeming fantastically silly or fantastically melodramatic. But Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, standing motionless under the Indian sky in her grandmotherly, garden-club dress, just seemed a little awkward and very earnest...
Over the dusty cow town, silence hangs heavy as doom. The womenfolk, both spangled and respectable, huddle helplessly on stairways and behind shuttered windows. Tense and motionless at the long bar stands a frieze of deputies and desperadoes. Even the bearded comic for once is solemn and wary. For this is the moment when virtue - lean, clean, manly, and quick on the draw - must face evil in single combat, to triumph or bite the dust...
...Catatonic Schiz?" In Female Admitting, a handsome Negro girl was brought in on a stretcher. Her eyes were wide open, but she lay motionless. "She went out cold like this all of a sudden, while we were sitting in a nightclub," said her husband. "For no reason, just all of a sudden...
...seemed to go on and on. The audience was paralyzed and Ansermet cocked his head increduously. Suddenly everyone blushed and started whispering in horror-stricken tones. Orchestra members grinned at each other and hushed repitions of the offending note could be heard. Primrose, motionless, paled perceptibly but otherwise looked unconcerned. With a lunge, Anserment brandished his baton and plunged into the third movement...
...bomb went off with a deafening, almost smokeless, explosion at 10:20 p.m. The front of the house was reduced to sagging debris in a split second. Moore's wife rose, wounded, dazed and screaming, amid a tangle of dust-clouded wreckage. But Moore lay motionless. He bled gently from the mouth and died just after his terrified friends got him to a hospital...