Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advised England's monarchs since the days of the first Queen Elizabeth, was even more adamant. Inflexibly, the tough-minded elder statesman pointed out that Makarios had "deliberately refrained" from meeting Britain's conditions for his release. To free the Archbishop now, he insisted, would be an act of disloyalty to Turkey, a trusted ally who had stood by Britain throughout the Suez crisis and who regarded Makarios' goal of enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece) as a direct threat to its security. Cyprus, which lies only 40 miles off the Turkish coast, is the only major...
...general inquiry into the abuse of union welfare funds, and, through Teamster Boss Dave Beck's longstanding income-tax troubles, probably would even have penetrated to the Teamster chieftain's big-time peccadilloes. But Turner and Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster, key figure in the Portland scandal. From there it was a short hop into Dave Beck's plush Seattle parlor...
Brother Marcel, at 69 still spry, witty and eager to shock, would put it a little differently. On his way to Houston last week, where he will lecture the convention on "The Creative Act," he proclaimed: "Painting today is a Wall Street affair. When you make a business out of being a revolutionary, what are you? A crook. As Brancusi used to say, 'Art is a swindle...
Ovid was banished from Rome for the last nine years of his life, possibly for some act so flagrant that he himself thought it too scandalous to confide to posterity. It can be said of Ovid, as Hilaire Belloc once hoped for himself: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read." Rarely have they read more delightfully than in Humphries' jaunty recreation of the urbane amorist's pagan high spirits...
Counterattack. In Youngstown. Ohio, when an elementary school was broken into, detectives traced the act to three small boys but failed to recover the one stolen item-the principal's paddle...