Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From almost every viewpoint, the special "Turnip Day" session had been a failure. Neither side had gained any political advantage, although Republican refusal to act made it easier for Harry Truman to pin a do-nothing label on the 80th Congress. But New York's Senator Irving Ives dropped a loud hint that Tom Dewey would probably disassociate himself from the G.O.P. congressional record in the campaign...
Rollicking Round. In 1938 the Holidays-with-Pay Act assured Britain's working men & women at least a week's paid vacation a year. It remained for William Edmund ("Billy") Butlin, a bustling, 48-year-old onetime carnival barker, to teach them how to use the new leisure. "I just think about what I'd like for a holiday," says South Africa-born Billy, "and then I give it to 'em." For the aspidistras of the traditional boarding house Billy has substituted neon lights and glass brick; for shoddy, scabrous hotels, rows of neat, bright cottages...
Grave Decision. Sammartino and his supporters then marched off to Radical Party headquarters in the Calle Tucumán. There all 42 Radical deputies handed in their resignations from Congress. This week a party convention will act on them. The party's decision will be a grave one. The Senate is already 100% Peronista. Should the party reject the resignations, thus keep alive political opposition in the Perón-dominated Chamber? Or should it accept, hoping somehow to force a crisis that would embarrass...
Earth's reply may spark many a controversy among Christians. He holds that the church does not act according to eternal and abiding principles but by the authority of the Word of God, which may change according to times and conditions. The situation in 1948, he contends, is not the same as it was in 1933. Hitler's and Stalin's regimes may both be totalitarian. But what is important is the special temptation Hitlerism was to the church in prewar days, when many prominent people were extremely friendly to the Nazis. Thus, says Earth...
...skill and nerve and, like most crowd-pleasing American pastimes, involves lots of noise. When half a dozen cars whine down the straightaway inches apart and fling into a screeching slide around a curve, the drivers brush lightly against the wings of death. But as in a tight-rope act, danger is the attraction, not death...