Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules, i.e., meetings at the chairman's, call, formation of subcommittees only at the chairman's pleasure, the committee in Udall's first two years churned only ten important proposals into law. It let half a dozen more die, including a $1.6. billion school-construction act. Deeply shocked, Stewart Udall vowed that the next two years would be better, began to forge an unfreshmanlike revolt against Barden...
...coincidence a paddy-wagon mate on the ride to Federal Detention Headquarters was Ukrainian-born Irving Potash, 55, one of the eleven top Reds convicted under the Smith Act in 1949 of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government. Deported by his own choice last year after serving 41 months of a five-year sentence, Potash mysteriously re-entered the U.S. (he refused to say how). Arrested in January, he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for illegal entry...
Still haunted by memories of the Great Depression, Congress in 1946 passed a law making the Federal Government responsible for promoting "maximum employment, production and purchasing power." Last week, obeying a provision of this Employment Act, President Eisenhower sent to Congress his yearly Economic Report, and evident in its pages was a striking departure from the spirit of 1946. After a decade in which the gross national product soared from $232 billion to $412 billion and real per-capita income after taxes rose 20% (to an average $1,705 for every man, woman and child in the nation...
When Western leaders began negotiating for EDC in 1951, Chancellor Adenauer, who had called Speidel from his classroom in 1950 to act as military adviser, sent him as West Germany's "observer" to Paris. As a German who had learned to speak fluent French as assistant military attache in the Paris of the early '30s, he made a hit with the French generals. They also remembered that as a high staff officer in the occupation he had prevented the SS from shooting hostages. Later Speidel won the sympathies of the Danes, Belgians and Dutch by criticizing French plans...
...theology-the existence of God is neither affirmed nor denied-nor liturgy, beyond the act of meditation itself. Hence there are no Zen churches or membership figures for the laity (there are an estimated 19,325 monks in Zen monasteries in Japan, plus 1.658 nuns). The practitioner of Zen is concerned only with enlightenment, which he calls satori. Enlightenment is often achieved by means that are shocking, in every sense of the word. A master may help his student to satori by hitting him with a staff (pang) or roaring at him (pang-ho). A less physical shock technique...