Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personage addressed, wearing a miter and a white brocaded cope with gold embroidery, walked slowly to the 700-year-old marble Chair of St. Augustine, sat gingerly down on its red cushion. With this simple act the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, last week became the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...
...language of show business, Harry Truman was following a great act. Franklin Roosevelt had been a radio nonpareil. Could his successor hold this vast audience? Two broadcasts last week seemed to indicate that the answer was a qualified...
...general, the pamphlet advises, a man must: 1) act as if he hated to be ill, 2) stick to one set of symptoms, 3) "Don't tell the doctor too much!" Recipes for twelve diseases follow. Samples: ¶ "Artificial skin inflammation, . . . Take three times daily . . . one teaspoonful of a 10% solution of iodine potassium in a glass of water . . . until a scarlet-like affection of the skin results. . . . Iodine potassium is a completely harmless medicine...
Without waste of time, President Christopher struck back. He denounced the unionization as impracticable, a step he felt safe in taking since he believes that foremen, being supervisory workers, are not specifically covered by the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act. He also felt safe in announcing that men who joined the F.A.A. would be dropped from foremen's work...
...blue, long-continued lack of any rest period or of any moment free from fear. Lord Moran defines courage as "a moral quality . . . not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. . . . Some men were able to see more fully than others could that there was no decent alternative to sticking it out and to see this not in a hot moment of impulse...