Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: In reference to Mr. Leroy Blodgett's letter [TIME, Dec. 3], in which he accuses the U.S. of being a third-class country with first-class equipment. . . . Tell me, Mr. Blodgett . . . would you act differently after months and years of living under adverse conditions, common only to a war theater, and not to your comfortable home in Burlington...
Among the dozen or more places they will visit will be a big stone-and-stucco house set in the rolling, rocky hills of New York's Dutchess County, overlooking the Hudson River valley. There the first act of the envoys will probably be the placing of flowers on a grave in the center of a hedge-boxed rose garden...
...yield to such a demand would mean the end of free enterprise. . . . General Motors does not propose voluntarily to blaze a trail in this direction. If our system ... is to be abandoned, it must be by act of Congress...
...Stature. More perhaps than any other living ruler, he is the embodiment of his country. And now both King and Canada had reached another milestone. This week by Act of Parliament, for domestic purposes, Canada declared the war against the Axis officially ended and the nation was once again on a peace footing. And, as he had for more than 18 years, Bachelor King would continue to lead his country. He had led it to Britain's rescue in the war; he had led it through to victory ; now he would lead it out of war and well along...
...country deeply endowed with moral sense. Its feelings about "decency" stem from deep roots in both its Anglo-Saxon and French traditions-traditions whose offshoots have blossomed into some unlovely flowers of puritanism and respectability. Canada's divorce laws are harsh. The Canadian Lord's Day Act is a Sunday-observance law that makes Canada on a Sabbath day the dullest place in the world. The liquor laws are repressive...