Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certain specific steps could be taken immediately. The committee proposed strengthened power for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Section. It recommended the establishment of a permanent commission in the Executive Office of the President, and of a joint standing committee in Congress to act as watchdogs...
...House has yet to act before one Senator, 16 Deputies, 18 Rio City Councilmen and 47 members of state legislatures-all acknowledged Communists-lose their seats...
Taylor's recommendations: 1) abolish lectures; 2) distribute copies of what the lecturer would have said, and let it be mulled over in small discussion groups; 3) help each student to "find a set of values in which he can believe and by which he can act in this world...
...Vegas, Nev. last summer, to get a divorce, Kay put on her act in a nightclub show to pass the time, and surprised even her own confident self by bringing the house down. Teamed up with the Williams Brothers, a quartet from Iowa who had knocked about on their own for about ten years with little success, she was ready for Ciro...
Onstage, Kay, her blonde hair brushed severely back, looks about 30, but owns to 35. One Hollywood wag says she "has a young face made up of old materials." Says she of her act: "I always wanted...