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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fashions in political expansion have changed since the days when Genghis Khan swept through this dry and rocky land, leaving in his wake ghastly skull pyramids to act as scare-rebels. By maintaining a big embassy staff in mud-walled Kabul, Russia has used gentler means to win Afghan acquiescence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: And Now Pistachio | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...bookstores for "tough" mysteries and nonfiction; if he spots a newspaper ad of a white-shirt sale he hurries off to stand in line; or he walks through Central Park, visits a Government agency downtown for a friend who needs help, and generally confounds people who expect him to act his age. In April he issued another of his periodic manifestoes for a third party. Other favorite recreations : double-crostics and letter writing (he has a voluminous correspondence) in his firm, open longhand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dewey Unchanged | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...Mexico's Davis Cup brother act-Rolando and Armando Vega-took a deep breath and blew Canada out of the running without losing a set. The U.S. team, which swallowed the underweight Filipinos in the other American zone Davis Cup playoff, must now tangle with the Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out Go the French | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...Security Council . . . is expected to act favorably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: When Is News? | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...Ambition. Success was a long time coming. At 16, he ran away from the Irish-Christian Brothers School in New Rochelle, N.Y. to join his mother, oldtime Actress Grace Hayes, in a Broadway variety act. All through the '30s he played theaters and saloons, had parts in 15 movies (13 B, two A). In 1940 he married Actress Mary Healy, now starring in Orson Welles's Broadway extravaganza, Around the World (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Comic in Manhattan | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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