Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...splitting of one world into two worlds was Russia's act, not the U.S.'s. Speaking from the steps of Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, on Independence Day, Harry Truman branded Russia's action "folly." Said he: "We have learned that nations are interdependent." If there is to be peace, nations must shape their policies "to support a world economy rather than separate nationalistic economies." As the greatest industrial nation of the world, the responsibility for that kind of peace devolved...
There was not even any assurance that John Lewis would not strike anyhow. Final contract negotiations stalled over his insistence on clauses which would make it possible for the miners to exploit the loopholes in the Taft-Hartley Act. The operators insisted on legal language that would protect them against a charge of attempting to evade the law. When they found the formula, they signed. A few hours later, John L. Lewis' 200-man policy committee approved the agreement which would send the miners back to work...
Recently Tora San suffered another act of indignity. Thieves broke into his cage, stripped off his skin from tail to ears. Tokyo's police thought that the remains of Tora San were well on their way to becoming tiger-skin wallets. Last week police found a tiger's head, placed it in Tora San's cage. But keepers and children (who know their tigers) indignantly insisted that the new head was not Tora San's. This one had been ripped off somebody...
Even in the chancelleries where Eva's trip had been planned (President Perón hailed it as "the greatest act of its kind in Argentine history"), anguished ministers kept constant tabs on Eva by transatlantic telephone. "If only," thought some, their fingers crossed, "she'll keep off politics!" At the last minute, four weeks ago, when Eva was about to take off from Morón airport, President Perón had rushed his pet ghostwriter aboard her plane, just in case. But one never could tell about Eva. To the women of Spain, on the first...
...under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived on the arm of Premier de Gasperi just in time to delay the second act a full half-hour. Some of the paying guests were furious, but the Latin American diplomats, who had the best seats, cheered wildly...