Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject, supplemented by detailed research into his attributes and works. In so doing the artists found, of course, that no single photograph is a so-called spit & image of a man. Rather, what he really looks like is a sort of photomontage of many different pictures. There, the creative act of portraiture moved, according to many who have studied and thought about TIME'S cover portraits, into a dimension beyond the scope of the still photograph...
Some Congressmen and most businessmen were still peering suspiciously at the men President Harry Truman had picked to administer the Taft-Hartley Act. His interim appointees to the expanded National Labor Relations Board, they grumbled, had loaded the whole board in labor's favor. But the choice Harry Truman made last week to head the autonomous Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was one that both business and labor could applaud. The man was Canadian-born Cyrus S. Ching, a towering (6 ft. 7 in.) pipe-smoking oldster (71) with 28 years of experience in labor relations...
Signs of Peace? When he takes over his new job next fortnight, Cy Ching will have the chance to give that formula its most searching test. In labor's determined campaign to bypass or discredit the Taft-Hartley Act,* there were only faint signs of peace last week...
...minutes everyone in the area was rounded up for questioning. The curfew was on again, and the Jews of Jerusalem resumed paying the bill of terrorism committed by a small group, while the guilty men got away. Ben Hecht had said that every act of terror gave him and his extremist associates "a little holiday in their hearts." It is doubtful if Middleton had heard that Hecht had said that, or that he would have understood...
...easy is a bush supposed a bear?" --Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene...