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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartley injunction at the 480,000 United Mine Workers. John Lewis, it was true, had merely suspended his coal strike and was threatening to start it again Dec. 1. But there was no national emergency yet, at least as the President saw it. If one materialized, the Taft-Hartley Act would be trundled into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Reprieve | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...hanging the assassin," said Gandhi's old newspaper Harijan, "there is something which positively takes away from the glory of the Mahatma . . . Granting of life to murderers . . . would be an act . . . of which only a government trained by Gandhi might dream of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Retribution | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Hugh B. Williams '51 and Frederick F. Williams, Jr. '50, no relation, were apprehended in the act of removing the sign by patrolman William Mullen, who brought them to the Dedham Jail, where they spent the night. In the morning the judge fined them $10 each, and Hugh Williams an additional $35 for driving under the influence of alcohol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Steal Marine Sign at Wellesley P.O. | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

...flood the stage with blood and have John the Baptist's head float on it. Even so, predicted Designer Dali when they were finished: "Those who protest will protest loudly, but those who like it will become delirious." Last week when Londoners finally got in on the act, some found what remained of Dali's nightmarish designs more distracting and boring than shocking. The frame of the harp that played for Salome's dance was a painted giraffe's neck. Herodias' tent was surmounted by umbrella skeletons which undulatingly opened and shut throughout the performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Like the North Pole | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Colorado Territory in Denver, she had to ride horseback to the theater through a heavy downpour. ("How," pleaded Virginia, "do you put the top up on a horse?") On the way to Denver, press-agents stopped her train so that she could leave the comfort of her compartment to act as "guest engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Flesh | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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