Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sodden delegates had sat through a memorial service to Franklin D. Roosevelt, only half aware of the ceremony's bad taste, bored by its dreariness. "We are here to honor the honored dead," rasped New York's Mayor O'Dwyer. "Won't you please act accordingly?" But neither Bill O'Dwyer's pleas, nor prayers, nor singing, nor oratory dented the delegates' torpor. The rumble of conversation continued to fill the air, only subsiding a little when Congresswoman Mary Norton presented the credentials committee's report...
Thus a reasonable assessment would conclude that the chance of war had not increased. Although men do not always act reasonably, nobody in the West but a certified prophet had a right to predict (as some uncertified prophets did last week) that war was close...
...peace, the West's ability to act in unison, was demonstrated also in the Palestine truce. Peace had been endangered and the United Nations disgraced by the failure to halt the Palestine war. Finally, U.S. and British policies were brought into line. In a matter of hours after that, the prestige and potency of U.N. returned last week, and the Arabs followed the Jews in accepting a truce in Palestine (see below). The truce in Palestine, the B-29s in Britain, were signs of the same solidarity...
...meager armored forces (see cut) to blast a land route to Berlin. But that would mean that the U.S. would abandon its present morally unassailable position. As matters stood, the air lift over the blockade could go on until the Russians stopped it-but only by an act...
...would the Health Act work for the patients? It was too early to tell. But one doctor, figuring out how often his old patients fell ill, made a guess for those on his new list, decided that he could average six minutes to a patient...