Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silence on the Grass. First act of the rally was a tribute to the men who had died in the mines the past year. The miners and their wives stood silent as massed bands blared the solemn melody of Gres-jord, which commemorates the great Gres-ford Colliery disaster of 1934 which killed 265 men. Then Sam Watson, chairman of the national Labor Party and of the Durham Miners, said simply: "You'd be more comfortable if you all sat down now." It was a homey assembly, like an outsize church social. The miners sat on the grass, handkerchiefs...
...Tokyo suburb one day last week, near the spot where a sabotaged railroad train had just killed six people, a ramshackle automobile flying a tattered red Rising Sun flag drew up with a screech of brakes. Like the celebrated clown act in the Ringling Bros, circus, nearly a dozen reporters and photographers poured out of the jampacked car. After hastily pitching a brown tent by the roadside as a temporary city room, the journalistic task force spread out to hunt for clues. Asahi (Rising Sun), the Far East's biggest and best newspaper, was out to crack the crime...
...Scotland, tells how they are going about it. The common method of creating cold-compressing and expanding gases-works only as far down as about one degree above absolute zero. So the scientists turned to a cold-creating method based on the fact that atoms in certain crystalline salts act like little magnets...
Copa Calling. In August 1947, Mindy left Whiteman to try a solo act in nightclubs. Her manager recalls: "What charm! She delivered a song as if it were a baseball." Mindy's delivery improved rapidly; in quick succession she sang at New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt, Cleveland's Mounds Club, Miami's Clover Club...
...Connecticut turned the $1,200,000 into a special fund that still helps the state's schools, and invested some of the money in Ohio mortgages. Last week, by act of the Connecticut legislature, a single remaining acre southwest of Toledo was handed back to Ohio...