Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morals of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis were secure, after midshipmen had given one performance of Boy Meets Girl. The play, a faintly risque farce, was obviously too much for the superintendent's wife-she swept out at the end of the second act. The superintendent, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway Jr., followed. Next day the rest of the play's three-day run was abruptly canceled...
...This body was to act as an arbitrator on all questions concerning religious conflict, national frontiers, internal disturbance and common action against any danger from the east-which in those days meant the Turks. This he called the Grand Design...
...this the city's sly hint of new German militarism waiting another chance? The great Soviet tank on the Potsdamer Chaussee, mounted on concrete-does it mean something that it faces out from the city, pointed westward? The American signs-are they unintentionally pointed in announcing: "Think, act, drive carefully-the life you save may be your...
...about to become a fact (but not without some last-ditch fighting), the British Medical Association reluctantly came to a decision. After a vote of its members, it decided not to oppose (and force its members to boycott) the government's National Health Service. When the Health Act goes into effect on July 5, every Briton will be entitled to free medical service at government expense. British doctors who join the Service will get a yearly retainer of ?300 ($1,200) plus additional fees for services rendered...
...school asked his mother whether Eddie was feeling better. Said his mother: "I didn't know he wasn't feeling well." Eddie had been playing hooky for 43 days, using his lunch money for carfare out to Latonia, to fool around the horses. His father read him the riot act and sent him back to school. Six months later his parents caught him driving back from the race track again in the family Packard...