Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Firm Stand. "If we are to be a great power," he said, "we must act as a great power. . . . Our diplomacy must not be negative and inert." The U.S. must stand firm on its own principles-and against any "unilateral gnawing away at the status quo"; any aggression "accomplished by coercion or pressure"; any maneuvering "for further and undisclosed penetrations of power"; any imposition of troops "upon small and impoverished states"; against any "war of nerves to achieve strategic ends...
...Here again is a clear call to America always to act in its traditional character for liberty and justice...
After two days, Philadelphia's authorities decided to act. Before dawn about 1,000 police, in cars and motorcycles, on horses and on foot, were deployed around the plant and in the neighborhood...
When a veteran in the audience later put extension of the Selective Service Act as a direct question, Gilbert Harrison, speaking for the American Veteran Committee, said, "We're for it," while Jack Hardy, national commander of American Veterans of World War II, called for "first things first," naming emergency housing specifically...
Lincoln was such a success that everybody wanted to get in the act. Kids at Lincoln made drums from coconuts and formed their own symphony orchestras. Tenth-graders solemnly analyzed the biases of the daily newspapers. Fourth-graders built their own bank of plywood and paid for their lunches by check." Older students made trips to T.V.A...