Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trade Agreements Act does not expire until 1948, but it is not inviolate. It could be crippled. G.O.P. members of the House Ways & Means Committee met behind closed doors last week, listened to both management and labor plead for protection, then planned their strategy. One objective was to force a postponement of the Geneva conference until Congress could investigate the whole program...
...Senate, Nebraska's Hugh Butler, concerned about the wool growers of his state, wanted Congress to have the final say before any bargains are made. During its whole history when Senate ratification was necessary (before the 1934 Act) the U.S. completed only three reciprocity agreements...
...commercial war, waged with Tommy guns, grenades, sawed-off shotguns, pistols, and speeding automobiles. Its soldiers wore a unique uniform-black velvet-collared topcoat and pearl-grey hat. It was a war which enriched the language, inspired a dozen books, plays and motion pictures, and damned the Volstead Act...
...definition: a first or unprovoked attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury or first act leading to a war or a controversy; an assault; also, the practice of attack or encroachment; as, a war of aggression...
There are other sequences which are dramatically confusing and tiresome: ragged little missions which fray out to death or nothing, and a succession of terse, disconsolate staff meetings. But as experiments in evocation-the way fighters look and feel and act-these scenes have seldom been equaled...