Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind over universal matter-and at the same time a last-chance signal to beware of onrushing Russian technology. To the man whose job it was to speak and act for the U.S. and the free world, it was a challenge...
...week's end the U.S. had not only won back but gained ground in Ghana-and in Delaware. "I hope," said Minister Gbedemah as he flew home, "that the people of Ghana understand that there are very few people in the U.S. who act that way." And the restaurant manager got word from the Howard Johnson people that he must, henceforth, serve "anybody who comes to our doors"-quite an order for segregation-minded Dover...
...young woman entered the office of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. She had heard of this student organization, whose 41 members act as consultants in civil cases for people who cannot afford a lawyer...
...Boston Defenders decides that an indigent prisoner has a case worth handling, one of its lawyers will accept it. The Harvard student will act as the attorney's assistant in investigating and trying the case. Unlike students in the civil organization, the Harvard Defenders can only go to the courts as consultants to Boston practicing lawyers, who plead the cases...
Ford chose fine material for his atonement: a story by Frank O'Conner, and one-act play by Lady Gregory and Martin McHugh. Then, after giving Hollywood its due by having Tyrone Power read the introductions, he filmed all three on location in Ireland, with actors from Dublin's Abbey Theatre. The result is a light, but eminently convincing movie...