Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very hard pufe to it when he insisted that their system appealed to the idealistic and we completely to the materialistic, and I had a very tough time trying to defend our position because he said: 'You tell a person he can do as he pleases, he can act as he pleases, he can do anything. Everything that is selfish in man you appeal to him. and we tell him that he must sacrifice for the state...
...Premier Habib Bourguiba and Morocco's moderate Sultan Mohammed V. Quick to understand the significance of the FLN move, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau dispatched young (31) Foreign Affairs Ministry Aide Jean-Yves Goëau-Brissonnière to a trade-union congress in Tunis, ostensibly to act as an "observer," actually to sound out FLN leaders...
...following Sunday every Anglican clergyman in South Africa read from his pulpit a letter from his controlling bishop urging him to defy church apartheid, and proposing to establish a fund to support people prosecuted under the act. "If Verwoerd were so foolhardy now as to try to implement his church clause," said the conservative Johannesburg Star, "he would make an eternal martyr of the first person arrested, set the Anglican church in revolt, and probably spark off a series of events that would convulse the entire country." But that was not all. The Presbyterian Church declared church segrega tion "morally...
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Du Font's 40-year-old ownership of 23% of General Motors stock violated the 1914 Clayton Act (TIME, June 17), U.S. businessmen have been fretting over just how far the Justice Department will try to push the new decision. Last week they could breathe a little easier. In a carefully prepared speech Robert A. Bicks, a top member of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, told the American Bar Association that the Government would take a long, hard look before trying to upset other longstanding affiliations. Said Bicks...
...More Flags, is an excellent guide to the spirit of the period. The Home Guard went into action, some appearing on horseback with bowler hats and shotguns. Others (including Author Fleming) were organized into guerrilla bands with underground hideouts like "the Lost Boys' subterranean home in the second act of Peter Pan", with the object of harassing an invading army. The General Staff puckishly referred to this as "scallywagging." Smart shops advertised that beneath their millinery could be found lightweight steel caps. By German "black" radio, the British heard that the Germans had a "fog-pill" by which parachutists...