Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most curious situation, perhaps unique in these courts," mused Mr. Justice Devlin last week, "that the act of murder has to be proved by expert evidence." Even Dr. John Bodkin Adams, the defendant in one of the longest murder trials in Old Bailey's history, was said to have asked in wonderment, "Can you prove it was murder?", when police arrested him last December on suspicion of having poisoned his eccentric old patient, Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell, in seaside Eastbourne six years earlier...
...eyed man who sits hunched on the edge of his throne almost as if overwhelmed by its high-arching brocaded back. In the turbulent world of emergent Moslem nationalism, Mohammed. 47, is an all but unique example of instinctive moderation surrounded by intemperate ambition. His is a skillful balancing act between tradition, which can become stagnation, and progress, which can become confusion...
...presiding over an economy throbbing with prosperity and boasting a $282 million budget surplus, their ninth surplus in ten years. In the last session of Parliament, the government cut taxes, increased old-age pensions and "baby bonuses," i.e., mothers' allowances. It put through a national hospital insurance act. But for their political heavy artillery, the Liberals still rely mainly on the powerful personal appeal of Quebec-born Louis St. Laurent, who at 75 is leading his third national campaign...
Sculptor Epstein hoped to create "a figure that is peaceful with a message of hope and peace." Well satisfied with the result last week, he proclaimed it his "greatest act of faith and his greatest work...
...thing, they must still seem like insect and animal. For another, their story is a problem because actually there is no story. And beyond that, they reflect a very personal, crinkly humorist and constitute a very Volstead Act and vers-libre period piece, the two things meeting in the on-the-wagon Don Marquis who said to a bartender: "I've conquered that goddam willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch...