Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue was a foreign aid bill amendment to relax the ironclad restrictions of the 1951 Battle Act, which ties the President's hands on aid to Communist countries. Sponsored by Massachusetts' Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the amendment authorized the President to extend economic aid to captive Communist countries if he believed that it would help loosen the bonds of "Sino-Soviet domination." It was practically an Administrative proposal: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles publicly endorsed...
...that it is no longer prepared to pay any costs of supporting U.S. troops in Germany. Bonn's note, described as "blunt," was not made public. Reportedly, the Germans explained that their recent $100 million troop-cost settlement with Britain (TIME, April 28) was simply an act of mutual aid to a NATO ally in economic difficulties and hence could not be regarded as a precedent for further payments to the U.S. The theory of support costs has been that, without much defense industry or any substantial armed force, wealthy West Germany is not carrying its own weight...
Nevertheless, the force which in the final analysis guides every life at Putney is the pressure of the community. The major paradox which the school faces is that any encouragement to think and act as an individual is balanced and sometimes negated by the ever-present collective opinion, with its subtle demand to conform. Although the problem of conformity is probably far smaller at Putney than at most schools, it is still not eliminated...
Such improvements are not long-range hypothesizing, nor mere suggestions in a tolerable situation. Each is an urgent requirement if our society is best to serve itself and its members, not to mention maintaining or improving its status in the Cold War. If administrators and school officials fail to act in meeting what may be properly termed a crisis--for more than the gifted child--then it is up to parents and citizens of the community to fill in. The nation's press has recorded events in Lakewood, Ohio, where parents launched after-hours special classes in language and science...
...Dramatic Club a student will probably act in more "great plays" than he will ever read for English class. The group performs a Shakespearean work each year, and the senior class play is traditionally a serious drama...