Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, unhorsed in the Senate battle over civil rights, came a cropper again, this time in the fight in the House to overthrow the Taft-Hartley Act. Harried from every side, his congressional forces were trapped between a softened version of the Taft-Hartley Act and the Administration's moderately toughened version of the Wagner Act...
Saturday's meeting and reading will be restricted to delegates and interested Harvard and Radcliffe students who want to act as unofficial delegates...
Defense Attorney Palmer played it as though the Government's attorneys were just straight men in his act. In cross-examining the agent who described Miss Coplon's arrest, he snatched up her handbag, minced up & down before the jury. "Now comes this great eclipse," he bawled, "this marvelous piece of FBI ideology!" When searching her, he said, the FBI had "stripped her from pillar to post" and from "topsail to feet...
...Queen Came By, Actress Thora Hird had spoken these lines in fear and trembling, while a sympathetic stage manageress stood in the wings with a glass of brandy at the ready. Whenever she spoke them, said Actress Hird, the second-hand Victorian jacket she wore in the third act tightened inexplicably about her neck and invisible hands seemed to choke...
...Economist BorisM. Stanfield: "[Communists] must be purged or reformed not by decrees but by the overwhelming force of an awakened citizenry . . . Our faculties must determine after careful scrutiny and in specific cases whether individual candidates or teachers live up to the standards of intellectual freedom and integrity and act accordingly...