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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good will, the Council so far had avoided that point of final decision, certain to be reached some day, when the as yet untried veto would enter. But that point had not been evaded at the cost of either integrity or action. The Council had been able to act, in a fashion galling to proud Russia, and to survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNO: It May Work | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...floor show had to be called off when hilarious veterans scrambled to get into the act and airmen distracted the audience with a rousing crap game. Bottles of beer consumed were measured in thousands; no one dared to estimate (or particularly cared) how much strong stuff was downed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE SERVICES: Reunion in Toronto | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Conversely, the body of American jurisprudence, "the problems of the Sherman Act, for example, tie in with the issue of international cartels. Public regulation in the field of aircraft, also, immediately transcends any purely national concept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPANSION OF AMERICAN LAW SEEN BY LANDIS | 2/8/1946 | See Source »

...five point's margin--until the last two minutes of play, when a tap-in by Lew Decsi plus two foul shots and one field goal by Gray put the Cantabs back into the game; then the former Bowling Green ace put on a one-man freezing act to put the game...

Author: By Monroe S. Singer, | Title: Gray's Last-Minute Score Stops Jumbo Threat, 67-65 | 2/5/1946 | See Source »

Good sequence: Playwright Tone, hat brim down and coat collar up, eavesdropping among the customers out for air during the second-act intermission of his new play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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