Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's actions and reactions were an opportunity for Democrats, they were also a source of deep concern ito many Republicans and other Administration friends. Said Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, a member of the Armed Services Committee: "Let the Administration shake off its complacency and act." Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper called upon the Administration to face ihe "harsh reality'' of Soviet progress: "If there have been faults in the organization of our missile program (see box opposite), or if arbitrary spending limits have been imposed, it is imperative that we correct them...
...Strom Thurmond, entombed as the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, who seemed willing to rise again. In Rock Hill, S.C., Thurmond cried out for a "real Democrat" (a term he deems almost exclusive to himself) to take over the state's party leadership and be ready to act "independently...
Acheson warned further that America must be constantly on guard against Communist attempts to separate the United States and its European allies. If Russia could succeed in these attempts, he said, it would have won the battle of Europe without a single act of violence...
Conway, who still thinks of himself as a Canadian, is now writing a book on the Commonwealth theory of sovereignty, which will be largely based on Canada's "constitution," the British North America Act. He has worked for the Progressive-Conservative Party, and his good friend and former canoeing partner, Davie Fulton, is Canadian Minister of Finance in the present Tory Cabinet...
Helen Hayes's brilliant performance fits into this spirit nearly perfectly, which is not really surprising, although playing an exaggeratedly gay, moderately mad French aristocrat might have seemed a bit beyond her great scope and skill. She triumphs, as usual. Her gestures are a catalogue of how to act; her bright eyes and posed postures handle comedy with a great flourish...