Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court Justice Luis G. Corona, the death penalty for murder, outlawed in the federal district since 1929, ought to be reestablished. Said the conservative Excelsior. "Society is handcuffed before the criminal, and the prestige of the country demands stronger methods. The [Porfirio] Díaz dictum-catch in the act, kill on the spot-unquestionably yielded better results. ... It is urgently necessary to teach a lesson to potential murderers by means of heavy punishment." Abreast of current opinion, a Pittsburgh electric supply house sent down a catalogue showing the latest thing in electric chairs...
...great historical experiment; they are faced with the challenge of establishing and extending the first democratic civilization. For them, news has a meaning that it did not have for plain people in the days of Pericles or Pitt. The decisions of the 20th Century rest with the people. To act, they have to know and to care...
...copy desk sends the stories back to the department's senior editor. There are six departmental senior editors, each with a staff of writers and researchers. The senior editors form the next circle; their day of misery or joy is Sunday, and their task is to act as "arms" of the managing editor. They sometimes hand stories back to be written again-occasionally four or five times. By Sunday, if the stories are not "right," the senior editor rewrites them...
...going on in the world, and it hopes that its readers care. TIME, seeking a truthful summation of the news, knows well that it can be wrong. But the possibility of error is no excuse for failing to try to communicate the sense of the news. The people will act (or fail to act) on whatever information they have. They are not allowed to wait until "all the facts" are in, and computed by machines not yet invented...
...intellectual, he nevertheless lectures and preaches with the angular arm-swinging of a revivalist. An orthodox Protestant, he is one of the busiest of leftist working politicians-a member of the Liberal party. For his gloomy view of man and history does not inhibit hL belief that man should act for what he holds to be the highest good (always bearing in mind that sin will dog his action...