Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand and act intelligently on the basis of the information you supply me. How well are you keeping that trust? Here is a crisis. Last night the radio tried to sell Truman to me. On the basis of what you have told me I can't be sold...
...advantage in weapons remained. By the passage of the Lend-Lease Act in March 1941, the economic weight of the U.S. had been thrown into the scales, thereby giving potential weapon superiority to Hitler's enemies. But the actual weapon advantage was still his. The Wehrmacht rode that advantage for 15 months, but the ride was no longer easy. The Wehrmacht now had to skimp. The results showed clearly in the Mediterranean: the Afrika Korps recovered Italian Cyrenaica but lacked enough power to crush beseiged Tobruk; then lost Cyrenaica again to Auchinleck; finally, reinforced, overran the British army...
...Payoff. If Harry Truman could act with political acumen and courage, he could also act like an old-line party man. Day after he nominated Lilienthal, he just as coolly paid off a political debt to the late ex-Convict Tom Pendergast, who had sent him to the U.S. Senate...
Common Ground is not glib in its affirmation of democratic faith. But it is too wordy and preachy. Under the sentimental pressure of its death-v.-dishonor plot, its tough, realistic tone slowly melts away. Anger rather than ardor makes Playwright Chodorov vibrant. His highly charged first act really gets under your skin. Thereafter, Common Ground strikes forcibly only upon...
...mean we seem to know enough to act...