Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that TIME tries for. There in miniature at Fiumicino, in a controversy over who should get credit for repairing the town's war-stopped clock, was, as TIME said, "the bitter struggle that rends all Italy"-a contest between Marxists and non-Marxists for sole credit for every act that benefits the people...
...When we Republicans were swept into control of both Houses . . . there was excited talk about a Republican trend which would make victory in 1948 inevitable. Now we know better. If we are to remain the majority party we must act effectively in the interests of a majority of people. If we act in the interest only of a minority of rock-ribbed Republicans, we shall again become a minority party...
...experts did not see eye to eye on the McCormick explanation. One agreed, grudgingly: sometimes the air does have belts of varying density. On very rare occasions, these may act as "wave guides" and conduct the radar's waves up from the surface of the water and over an obstacle...
...ring and at the movie box office. This time Mr. Jordan reaches higher for heavenly intervention, and escorts it a bit lower. The rosy shade of Terpsichore (Rita Hay-worth), outraged by a Broadway work-in-progress called Swinging the Muses, comes down to earth and gets into the act. She immediately dances herself into the lead of the show, and into a fine kettle of fish...
...more complicated than Crime, and Punishment. Eddie was sensational. Said Producer Vanya Vashvily: ". . . the worst director can't harm him. His left profile is as good as his right." But trouble started when, right in the middle of shooting, the farmer who owned Eddie refused to let him act at a piddling $40 a week...