Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those were not worries enough, Khoury's sister-in-law, Mrs. Margaret Haddad, had become Dahish's most fanatical disciple. As the stories made the rounds of Beirut, the Government decided to act. Foreign Minister Selim Takla, buzzed the bazaars, was drafting a deportation order for Dahish. Then, on the night of Jan. 11, 1945, Takla entertained U.S. Minister George Wadsworth (now Ambassador to Iraq) at dinner. Wadsworth left the Foreign Minister, apparently fit and smiling, returned home to find a message that Takla had dropped dead...
...suggestion sat ill on independent Newfoundland stomachs. Member Malcolm Hollett's gorge rose. He stood up, said, "If I make a speech I might lose my temper," and sat down. Member Gordon Higgins kept his temper and made a speech: people in other parts of the Empire might act "like rats leaving a sinking ship," but not in Newfoundland, the Empire cornerstone...
...quick act, Commissioner Happy Chandler had done the seemingly impossible: he had made Leo Durocher a sympathetic figure...
...been"). Unlike Oldtimer Al Jolson, Rudy Vallee hadn't learned that his future was in his past. Still looking like a college boy-but of the class of '25, Rudy said: "People have me returning from the zombie dead. I don't look or act 45. I try to keep my stuff up-to-date. Nostalgia doesn't mean much...
...cost a good deal of hard tax money, as well as permanent change of attitude, to buy out of it. Because this issue of MARCH OF TIME describes this predicament tersely and forcefully, it can be incalculably useful if enough people see it, take it to heart, and act...