Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johns Hopkins University, accused D'Alesandro (but later retracted and apologized) of having been "an outspoken admirer of Mussolini." Chimed in Candidate James Bruce, business tycoon and onetime (1947-49) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina: "D'Alesandro's tax policy has been a one-man trapeze act." Snapped Baltimore paving contractor and Perennial Candidate George Mahoney: "Far be it from me to accuse other candidates, but it would be nice if they supplied something more current than wedding and graduation photographs." Thus did the candidates near the end of a free-for-all Free State primary...
...months had Calcutta's drowsy Government Book Depot, which handles the dreariest of official publications, experienced such a brisk burst of activity. No sooner had the first 500 copies of the central government's Act to Suppress Immoral Traffic arrived than a flood of customers snapped them up. The act, designed to outlaw brothels and subject pimps to severe punishments, was passed in 1956; but Parliament delayed enforcement so that India's prostitutes could find other ways to make a living and state governments would have time (though few bothered) to build "rehabilitation homes." Last week, just...
...There are other ways of relieving tension than by holding mass gatherings," von Stade noted. He commented that students should "let off steam individually," rather than in mass groups. "If people act childishly, then we should treat them as children...
...insure both receipts and general support from its alumni the Fund should act to achieve a broader base of givers. Each class after '47 has but four agents for solicitation of contributions. Earlier classes have fewer. The Permanent Class Committee must labor mightily to find the four magic individuals who know most of their classmates--especially the affluent ones--and who are either Bostonians or New Yorkers. The small size of the Fund staff prevents the utilization of larger numbers of agents. The dominant belief that agents must be a part of a small happy family in constant contact with...
...second to bear the Marlborough title was no duke but a duchess. In the absence of a male heir to the first duke-whose only son died of smallpox in 1703-an act of Parliament permitted the dukedom to pass in the female line. His daughter Henrietta (1681-1733) succeeded him as second Duchess, became a great and good friend of Playwright William Congreve...