Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frame. Then Hoffman sat down to drive his points home to the men who could act on them. Britain was represented by Sir Stafford Cripps, Belgium by Premier Paul-Henri Spaak (who is also OEEC chairman), the other Marshall Plan countries by men of cabinet or ambassadorial rank. The U.S. people, Hoffman told them, expected the European nations to carry out their pledges of joint action. He asked for a coordinated, four-year master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot...
Antonio Pallante was no workaday, hireling killer; he belonged to the fevered race of political assassins who act alone. In solitude, Antonio Pallante nursed an obsession. The target of his hatred and his plans was suave, astute Palmiro Togliatti, boss of Italy's Communist Party...
...Belligerent Air. After the first shock wore off, Giant fans began to act like Communists the day after a switch in the party line. They grudgingly admitted that Leo would give the Giants a belligerent air. He might even breathe some fire into a club which hadn't known a man-sized blaze since the late great John J. McGraw left 16 years ago. Leo was the McGraw type-aggressive, hot-tempered, hell on umpires and a great tactician...
Died. Ildebrando ("Papa") Zacchini, 80, Italian-born circus impresario who introduced the human cannon ball act in 1922; in Tampa, Fla. Patriarch of two generations of the often injured but never killed "Flying Zacchinis" (the stunt has led 32 non-Zacchinis to their deaths), Ildebrando lost a leg seven years ago, after he had already retired to devote himself to painting...
Disappearing Act. In Los Angeles, a persistent burglar returned for a third attempted looting, left for good when Householder Joyce Lynne Murray hurled a jar of vanishing cream...