Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting forces. The War and Navy Departments now estimate that by a year from now we still will need a strength of about two million. ... In case the campaign for volunteers does not produce that number, it will be necessary by additional legislation to extend the Selective Service Act beyond...
...past, Jim Curley's conviction would not stop him from being Massachusetts' most agile and successful politician. He had once been jailed for violation of the Civil Service Act, had once been forced to pay back $42,629 he had taken as graft from the city which loves to elect him. Now he faced a possible prison sentence. But there was nothing in the law-or Boston's political morals-to prevent his continuing as Mayor. If necessary, the "greatest figure" could run the city from jail...
...that UNO had been asked to handle it. Anxiously some advised Iran not to expect baby to get up and walk before it was strong enough to climb out of the cradle. The less sentimental had another view: baby would grow strong only by exercise; if baby did not act now it would not be any stronger five, ten or thirty years from...
Actually, not Kierkegaard but German Philosopher Martin Heidegger (a Nazi from 1932-34), begot Existentialism. Heidegger's ultimately cynical subjectivism rather than the Danish prophet's Christian profundity determined Sartre's concept of man's responsibility: "Man is free to act, but he must act to be free. If he fails to choose a social or political line of action, he is not a Being; he is Nothingness." Should, by chance, Christian ethics permeate man's action, Sartre does not mind-not because it is Christian but because it is moral...
Acid Upstart. Sime Silverman was fired from the old New York Morning Telegraph for panning a theatrical act that had bought an ad. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law to push into the clamorous crowd of stage-door journalism. His maiden editorial in 1905 carried an acid promise: to print the news "without regard to whose name is mentioned, or the advertising columns...