Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the future emperor was ten years old, Emperor Meiji died and General Nogi dramatized the most important element in the boy's education-Shinto-by an act that startled the world and can scarcely have failed to impress the child...
...masters in death), they knelt before their household shrine and with ceremonial swords committed hara-kiri by eviscerating themselves. Later, Americans, shocked and baffled when trapped Japanese soldiers blew themselves to bits with hand grenades, or Japanese civilians drowned themselves rather than surrender, might recall General Nogi's act, with a shudder...
King Leopold listened. Then he wrote a letter to his brother, the Regent: the King's health, impaired by German imprisonment, did not permit him to return at once to Belgium; would Prince Charles continue to act as regent? Leopold was able to deliver the letter in person since Prince Charles stayed on as a house guest...
...church in the Alpine village of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Only a few hours before, Pastor Martin Niem&2461ler, leader of Germany's Confessional Church-and one of Christianity's most effective anti-Nazi weapons-had been liberated by the U.S. Fifth Army. His first public act after eight years of imprisonment was to conduct a religious service, based on a text he had long since chosen for this moment...
...C.I.O. and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which got together only six weeks ago on a labor-management pact, got together again last week. This time, before a House committee, they both plumped for extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act...