Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower's announcement that "We can only act like men" in the Middle East is merely a resounding squeak from the ex-great leader who proved himself a mouse in Hungary...
...Jews." Morning, noon and groaning night, all conscious attention was turned to the closed doors behind which American immigration authorities worked to speed the screening process for entry into the U.S. They were hampered by the impersonal provisions of the McCarran-Walter Act, which took everything into account but the human heart. Nonetheless, under orders from Washington and by their own compassion, they were straining the law to its utmost to make their nation live up to the refugees' unseeing, unreasoned faith...
...refugee and his handsome wife sat before an immigration inspector. The man answered questions rapidly. He was a skilled instrument maker. He had belonged to a union-but never to the Communist Party (membership in the Communist Party is the one sin that the inspectors, under the McCarran-Walter Act, can never forgive). What was his religion? The man and his wife paled with fear. "We are Jews," he whispered. The inspector nodded. Down went his hand-to stamp approval on their entry papers. Speechless, the man and wife arose, reached for their children and hugged each in turn...
...diphtheria, run by Health Commissioner Joseph G. Molner. On every notification of birth registration there is an invitation to the parents to have the child inoculated. There is a follow-up letter a year later, and a recheck when the child enters grammar school. But many parents fail to act because they have been lulled into a false sense of security by today's relative rarity of diphtheria. For them, the disease has lost its traditional terror. And Detroit's problem is complicated by huge population shifts...
...speaker then discussed the presence of "mystery within reason," adding that "we must go over sleek certainties and recognize that the act of thinking is, in part, mystery...