Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko got into the act. Said he, twinkling like a Russian tea-tray: "Some attribute [the 'saucers'] to the British for exporting too much of their Scotch whiskey into the United States; some say it is a Russian discus thrower training for the Olympic games who does not realize his own strength...
...with the best contract in their history. His 75,000 anthracite miners had revamped their own unexpired contract to bring it into line. Not only had Lewis won more than twice the wage gains of other labor leaders, he had also punched a yawning hole in the Taft-Hartley Act...
Certainly not John Lewis, was the inference, and there was evidence to support it. First, he had forced the operators to knock the old no-strike clause out of the coal contract. That would prevent any damage suits for breach of contract under the Taft-Hartley Act. Then, to make sure that mine operators would not go running to the NLRB for help, he had wangled a provision that disputes would be settled in union-management conference...
...tries. He inspires and directs Communist parties in all non-Communist countries to weaken their social systems and, if possible, to destroy them. In a nutshell, the evidence that the Communists intend to dominate the world boils down to this: 1) the Communists say they do; and 2) they act as if they mean...
...years it gathered dust as Sir Arthur and his Sherlock Holmes gathered legend. Finally Sir Arthur's son, Adrian, went poking about and last week the secret was out. The hatbox, announced Adrian, contained unpublished writings by Sir Arthur, including The Crown Diamond, a "hitherto unknown" one-act play about Holmes, and a mysterious manuscript entitled Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Holmes. This "unique document," said Adrian cryptically, would "explode the old myths" about Sir Arthur and his great gumshoe...