Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actions of Congress, however, have put Hawaii even closer to statehood than Alaska. . . . Hawaii's enabling act, appropriately dubbed H.R. 49, has been placed on the House calendar for debate during this session of the 80th Congress...
...Conservatives cannot be happy under a government whose announced aims, they say, include not worrying about anyone with more than a 1000 pound income. Tradition-conscious upper middle class people make polite jokes about the boorishness of Labor ministers, sigh "If Mr. Churchill were only running things," and act like virtual disinterested strangers in their own country...
...peacetime the United States seldom exerts the full weight of its influence in world politics. Even after the results of the first World War put it indisputably in the ranks of the great powers, it declined to enter the League of Nations, passed the Neutrality Act, and postponed even mild restraining measures against the late, unlamented Axis until it was bludgeoned into action. In the two years since the United States emerged from World War II as one of the super-powers, its foreign policy has often seemed to operate on a day to day, catch-as-catch-can basis...
...biggest of them is less than one-hundred-thousandth of an inch in diameter. Biologists once wondered whether a virus was a living organism or just an overgrown, active protein molecule. The dispute is still not entirely settled, but the electron microscope shows that many of them look and act like living things. At a recent American Medical Association symposium, leading U.S. virologists described an amazing variety of viruses, ranging from types that attack only bacteria to those that infect...
Married. Lloyd Bowers Taft, 24, third of Senator Robert A. Taft's four sons; and Virginia Stone, 22; in St. Joseph, Mich., while C.I.O. pickets tramped as close to the church as they could get, denouncing father Taft's new labor act...