Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees voted to reword the resolution granting President Eisenhower the authority he wants to act in the Middle East, New Jersey's Republican H. Alexander Smith met Montana's Democrat Mike Mansfield in the offices of the Foreign Relations Committee. "Mike," said Smith, with obvious exasperation, "just what did you accomplish with your amendment...
...after the first few minutes of the third act, Mr. Wulp reveals himself as a bearer of good tidings. He has a message--roughly, that it is wise for men to stay at home and cultivate their gardens. Unfortunately for the playwright, this has been said before, and more persuasively than he is able to say it. Unfortunately for the play, he drops the accents of comedy and continues in a tone which is apparently meant to be highly serious. The writing in the last act is made up of the worst sort of pseudo-poetic prose, studded with such...
...students believe it was their duty to emphasize the political significance of this act on the part of the citizens of Barcelona...
...freshmen on the Council booklet committee would act as as advisors, giving the Yardlings' point of view on both city merchants and College organizations...
...officials and committees rather than congregations, Protestant leanings toward the Roman Catholic concept of the church as mediator of grace rather than as witness of grace. Furthermore, "we have largely the wrong idea of the Communion. In Biblical times the Lord's Supper was interpreted as an act by which God shows that he reaches out to the community. Today it seems to be an act in which we draw together against fellow Christians and the world in a ceremony for an exclusive inner circle...