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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closed meeting that extended my time before the committee to a total of three hours. Six Senators listened attentively to my presentation, and all of them asked very good-I would say, penetrating-questions. I thought that my trip from SHAPE, Paris to support the vital Mutual Security Act served a useful purpose. The attitude of Chairman Green and the committee seemed to support this conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1958 | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Brief Encounter. As Tronfolger, Margrethe can now act as regent during her father's absences, with "the prerogative of mercy and granting amnesty" and, when Parliament is not sitting, of calling the nation to arms against any foreign invader. But beyond learning her official duties and finishing her education, her chief worry during the next years will be to find a suitable consort. At a ball last fall, the royal court thought for a moment that she might have found one when she insisted on dancing every waltz with a handsome teen-aged count. Unhappily, the waltzing gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Daisy Comes of Age | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...your wife good-bye'?" Heikkila will be deported "if it takes from now until I get kicked out." And Representative Walter and his subcommittee, who are investigating the incident, appear more concerned about Swing's tactics as capital for Communist propaganda and adverse publicity for the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, than about the morality of the tactics themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Smallest Show on Earth | 4/26/1958 | See Source »

...contrast to this unevenly matched couple is Sangazure and Pointdextre as played by Elizabeth Stearns and David Stone. Both are fine actors and, although Miss Stearns' diction is a trifle unclear, their singing is good enough to make their first act duet one of the highpoints of the evening...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: The Sorcerer | 4/25/1958 | See Source »

...designer John Beck has managed to conquer the problems of the tiny stage satisfactorily, giving an illusion of depth and width. Peter Salisbury provides his usual excellent lighting job with suitably magical effects at the first act incantation scene...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: The Sorcerer | 4/25/1958 | See Source »

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