Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politicians, resistance heroes came forward to defend Pastor Mathiot. Said Charles Westphal, vice president of the French Protestant Federation and a veteran of the wartime French underground: "Mathiot's action is justified by the prevalence of torture in Algeria ... He obeyed the highest moral law there is. His act is symptomatic of the great unrest in French consciences today." Other signs of unrest: the French Reformed Church, as well as the Catholic Church, has repeatedly drawn attention to abuses in Algeria. Speaking not only against excessive use of violence there but against bitter anti-Algerian propaganda at home...
While the public debate continued, Preacher Mathiot stood in the dock in a small, jampacked Besangon courtroom. Also on trial: Francine Rapine, 21-year-old Catholic student who had acted as Si Ali's secretary (police proved that Si Ali had organized a local cell). To the court Mathiot explained his motives: "A hunted man is a hunted man. A wounded man is a wounded man. He was wounded mortally. He begged for the safety of a presbytery in the name of Jesus Christ . . . There is hope in an act of love. I acted as a Protestant pastor...
...vodka: "Now I know why they got their Sputniks up first. I'm surprised the whole country didn't go straight up years ago." On the censorship: "The Soviet censor read all my jokes. I haven't seen him since. I understand he is doing my act in Leningrad...
...here and some there. No self-respecting people want charity; they want to earn their way. To seize the initiative in the cold war, we must first make ourselves worthy of the leadership of the free world. But we will never do that so long as we continue to act in the short-term special interest of our minority groups." Concluded Clayton: "Our oil imports come partly from Venezuela (buyer annually of $1 billion of American goods, the economic equivalent of 250,000 American jobs), partly from Canada (our best customer in all the world), partly from the Middle East...
...British public school who takes a holiday in Sussex to look for a lost Roman bronze. While he is tunneling away beneath an improbable-looking ruin, a traveling circus pitches tent in the vicinity, and where does Danny's tunnel end? Spang in the middle of the lion act. Danny survives the lion's den-only to be consumed with passion for the girl on the flying trapeze (Pier Angeli). But this is madness! He is already engaged to Miss Letitia Fairchild (Patricia Cutts), a powerful young woman who will stand for no nonsense. What can poor Danny...