Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ordered Budget Director Percival Brundage to release a total of $177 million in appropriations previously frozen by the White House for commitment under the omnibus housing act of 1957. The act provided a total of $1,740,000,000 for various home-building programs, a sum that President Eisenhower declared high at the time. With recession causing concern (TIME, Dec. 30), the decision was made to pump the money into the economy. Biggest item: $107 million to help pay for mortgages on armed forces family housing...
...National Security Act of 1947 was aimed at reconciling irreconcilable views, and the result was admittedly a compromise. The act tried for unification, yet it required that the services-three instead of the wartime two-be "administered as individual executive departments." The Department of Defense was created, with a Defense Secretary given broad, general powers-but since prohibited by law from tampering with the functions of the separate Army, Navy and Air Force. Each service got its own Secretary, and each Secretary had the right of appeal over the head of the Secretary of Defense to the President...
...scarcely a sign of talent, the authors of Miss Isabel have tackled a stage subject that might make genius stumble. Their aging, white-haired heroine becomes mentally ill and imagines that she is a young girl and that her embittered, put-upon old-maid daughter is her mother. One act later, Miss Isobel imagines that she is a tiny child who keeps caterpillars in a shoe...
...Amos 'n' Andy, manage to combine low-pressure comedy with universal family situations and such keenly observed detail as a wife's nettling way of pulling electric plugs by the cord, or how a small boy can reduce a kitchen to shambles in the simple act of trying to get a drink of water, or how two boys gravely fake taking a bath by wetting washrags and towels and tossing a handful of "turtle dirt" into the draining bathwater because "it leaves a good ring...
...place that Abraham made the everlasting covenant of his people with the Lord and received God's instructions to revive the ancient Canaanite rite of circumcision as a token of participation in that covenant. And it was also to a mountain that Abraham went, ready to perform the act that still stands as a supreme symbol of human faithfulness to God's command-the sacrifice of Isaac, his only...