Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tanks roared up; Kadar's cops swung rifle butts, and legation staffers watched police carry off two truckloads of women. A Russian column charged up to a third group outside the Yugoslav embassy, pushed 15 to 20 demonstrators into armored cars, and made off. In a last despairing act, the women flung their pocketbooks to the crowd. From identification cards found inside, the Budapest Workers' Council made lists of the abducted women and protested to Russian and Hungarian authorities, both of whom professed innocence...
...Cultist. "We are the villains infesting our time of confusion," wrote one young gentleman of Japan recently, "and the weapon we use is our youthfulness." As the most talked-about youngster in modern Japan, 24-year-old Shintaro Ishihara has every right to act as spokesman for his generation. Not yet a year out of college, he is already known as a composer, painter, a movie star whose haircut and clothes are ardently aped by teen-agers from Tokyo to Nagasaki, and the most sensationally successful author in the nation, with four bestselling novels to his credit. Beyond all this...
Like the vague charge of "vagrancy" in the hands of a determined U.S. cop, South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act provides Premier Johannes Strydom with a handy gimmick for arresting anybody he deems undesirable. The difference is that a hoodlum pulled in by a U.S. cop can usually get free in the morning...
...last week, using the Suppression of Communism Act as their excuse, the special security police charged with imposing Strydom's will on his country swooped down on scores of homes throughout the cities of South Africa and arrested 140 people: clergymen, trade unionists, doctors, lawyers and private citizens. The one "crime" they had in common was bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of the Strydom regime...
...Despite my dazed state, the defense mechanism of the human body worked, and even smiling at them, I answered: 'It means a cardinal without office.' " It took his captors some time to find out that C.F. stood for the Latin coactus feci ("I have been forced to act") -a symbol used by many Christians to sign extorted confessions during the years of Turkish rule in Hungary...