Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1947, just before taking off to see his dying mother in Independence, President Truman signed an important piece of legislation at Washington's National Airport. It was the National Security Act which had just been passed by Congress and which was designed to bring order and teamwork to the squabbling military establishment...
Three in the Ring. Some confusion stemmed from the false notion that the act was supposed to ''merge" the forces. It was supposed to do nothing of the kind. It did, in fact, create the Air Force as a separate arm (thus putting three battlers into the ring instead of two). At the insistence of the Navy, the act precluded real unity in operations by proclaiming that the Navy should keep its air arm and hang on to the Marines (a land force). The Secretaries of the three services were given the specific right-which they freely exercised...
Whittaker Chambers showed no elation at the turn of events. "I would be inhuman," he told reporters, "if I could take any pleasure in Mr. Hiss's personal troubles."† The new grand jury had taken over. As its first act, it summoned Chambers to go on telling his story...
Fellow biochemists were sure he would have some news last week. He did. He has been working with enzymes, the chemical substances found in the body and in plants, that act like catalysts (e.g., pepsin in the stomach). Previously, he had isolated eight of eleven enzymes that cause fermentation, then devoted his time to studying just one of them, an enzyme he called zymohexase. He found that the blood of rats with cancer contains more zymohexase than that of normal rats, and that the larger the tumor, the greater the amount of the enzyme...
...relief of his literary admirers, Archibald MacLeish dropped his wartime role of political soothsayer and returned, in some sections of Act five, to the personal lyrics he had once sung so well. From England came the apocalyptic chants of Edith Sitwell, who had journeyed a long way from her early preciosities. Her Song of the Cold contained some good war poetry. (It was a year in which America became Sitwell conscious, and the touring Sitwells discovered America. Osbert Sitwell sketched an acid portrait of his delightfully eccentric father in Laughter in the Next Room; Sacheverell, youngest of the literary family...