Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House refused (207 to 161) to allow sailors to eat oleo with their meals as soldiers and airmen already do, except in some overseas areas or when butter surpluses are depleted. Dairy-bloc Congressmen lead a successful fight to keep intact a Navy Ration Act put through by Theodore Roosevelt to provide bluejackets with 1 6/10 ounces of "butter" a day, to prevent scurvy and beriberi...
...famed Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, and often called Einstein's successor. In 1932 Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize for one of modern physics' key laws, "the uncertainty principle," which holds that subatomic events cannot be observed individually without changing them by the very act of observation...
Everybody got into the act yesterday as the varsity lacrosse team scored an easy 13-4 victory over a Brown squad that will officially enter the Ivy League next Spring. Things got so informal under the warm May sun that with victory safely tucked away after three periods, Dick MacKinnon shed his goalie's pads for an attackman's stick, but failed to contribute to the scoring...
...toasted English muffins which rarely failed to raise my English eyes from my food. Obviously, there was no inflaming, no provocative connotations in the cry "Burn two British," since the clatter of conversation continued without pause. No, if the cry evoked any visions at all it was of an act whose consummate justness was self-evident and required not even a smile The Manchester Guardian Weekly, April...
...Kraft Co. last month hired Talent Associates' David Susskind to put on a series of works by topnotch authors (among them: Robert Penn Warren, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), gave the new executive producer full rein. Susskind's first venture was a package of three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, written back in the '30s when the grocer called him Tom and the postman brought him rejection slips. Moony's Kid Don't Cry was a peek into the frustration of a onetime lumberjack hooked by big-city humdrum, was acted by Ben Gazzara...