Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign to convince the world that Russia is out to ease international tensions, Nikita Khrushchev has displayed the sure timing of an expert con man and the insinuating patter of a carnival barker. Last week, in a single act of savagery, Khrushchev threw away the diplomatic fruits of all this patience and skill...
...occurred among the neutralist powers and Europe's left-wing fringe. Avanti, organ of Pietro Nenni's red-tinged Italian Socialist Party, proclaimed that the executions "bring us back in full bloom" to the era of Stalinism. Burma's Premier U Nu called them "a horrible act." The Indonesian Socialist daily Pedoman drew a local moral: "We cannot fool around with the idea of cooperation with the Reds." In India, where Nehru's equivocation blunted the impact of the revolt itself, there was almost unanimous condemnation of Moscow. Said one influential Indian in unwonted tribute...
...come down from heaven, was not too big for the Prime Minister. Over the months, Nkrumah has created six new senior chiefs in Ashanti to challenge the Asantehene's rule, is now ready with a bill to set up, in accordance with the constitution, Houses of Chiefs to act as advisers to the government. When the bill becomes law, the Asantehene will lose his absolute power to make and break his own vassal chiefs. He will be merely the titular head of an advisory body more impotent than Britain's House of Lords...
Seldom has the hate-twisted face of prejudice been more starkly depicted. But the story dealt with symptoms, ventured only timidly into the shadowy causes of the disease. Admitted Author Serling himself: "I particularly did not like the staging and writing of the last act. It was overwritten." Retorted Playhouse 90's Producer Martin Manulis: "It was a great tribute to the ad agencies that they ever let this show...
...since. At first he estimated that he could bring the biographies up to the class of 1800 in his lifetime, then revised his hopes downward to the classes of the Revolution. Now, at 55, he figures to hymn the sons of Harvard through 1765, the year of the Stamp Act. Progress so far: seven more volumes and part of the eighth, extending Sibley's sketches to the class...