Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such an act adultery? A sin, or a triumph of science? Last week these questions were exercising the best legal, religious and journalistic minds of Britain. Hearing MacLennan's suit, Lord Wheatley, a Roman Catholic judge of Scotland's Court of Session, listened to the argument of MacLennan's lawyer that the real essence of adultery is not how it is accomplished, but "the surrender of a woman's reproductive organs to another man." Commented Lord Wheatley: "Of course, it is not another man, but a test tube. She does not know...
Remembering Lew's sad debut last year, when he first took King Jake Kramer's shilling ($125,000 worth, to be exact) and was whipped by almost every pro he played, a few cynical sports suggested that last week's tight tennis was all an act. But no one with decent eyesight took the sneers seriously; the matches were too tough, too tense to be the least bit phony. In Sydney a fine two-hour contest of four sets sent Pancho to the showers with an aching forearm muscle and a stomach tied in knots. In Adelaide...
...discourage travel, and the 3% tax on freight; encourage railroad mergers; allow the roads to diversify more widely into other forms of transportation, such as trucks and planes. Said the Central's President Perlman: "If we fail to convince you of the desperate need to act now, if you fail to act, the nation's railroads will go downhill ever faster, dying of starvation...
...tariffs, President Eisenhower last week asked for a five-year extension of the U.S. trade agreements act "with broadened authority to negotiate." In the specific case of lead and zinc tariffs, which within the law Ike could raise, Washington heard that the White House has quietly shelved its intention to give the U.S. mining industry that kind of relief. But the general level of tariffs is mainly up to Congress, struggling with its conscience and its lobbies...
...daughter (Jean Seberg), which takes place mostly on the French Riviera, is not physical. Incest, as this story sees it, is emotional infantilism-the fear of life, the compulsion to security, the marriage with death. The marriage is consummated, not with a gesture of creation but with an act of destruction. The daughter murders her father's mistress (Deborah Kerr). Technically, the death is either a suicide or an accident, but if the method is euphemistic the meaning is clear. Father and daughter drift off on an aimless round of inconsequential pleasures...