Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When soldiers discovered what every good agitator knows-that by mob methods they could stir up a quick reaction from the U.S. public and its Congress-they began to act like a mob. Generals as well as politicians were powerless against this behavior. With G.I. demands ringing in his ears, General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower issued a strategic retreat order to theater commanders: return to the U.S. any men "for whom there is no military need...
While he was about it, Modelman Conover revived the tried-&-true cry of the '20s: fashion designers were wrecking women's health by making them look like matchsticks. Promptly Designer Valentina got into the act: "Nonsense! . . . When the curves need correcting, the designer . . . corrects them. But never, never does she ignore them...
...opposite Miss Martin in a somewhat sterile part. The other 45 actors named in the program are mainly character bit players who are competent but have little chance to become outstanding; perhaps Rex O'Mailey was most noticeable because of his Gilbert-and-Sullivan-like song in the first act (the only solo, incidentally, not sung by Brynner or Miss Martin...
...Army's problems will not get any simpler. The Selective Service Act expires May 15. Unless Congress,'now in a mind to repeal the act, votes instead to renew and strengthen it, by next spring the Army will be in a worse plight...
...epileptic; Alexander the Great, sometimes called the "divine lunatic"; and Peter the Great, who killed his own men in fits of temper-were good soldiers in spite of-or perhaps because of-their mental ills. The Army Medical Corps' Major William Needles has decided that nervous handicaps may act as psychological crutches...