Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been deluged by two questions ever since I returned from Budapest, where I made arrangements to place medicines, food, clothing and other essentials in the hands of those fighting for their liberty in Hungary: "What can I do?" "Why don't we act?" The International Rescue Committee has, for 20 years, specialized in providing the many kinds of desperately needed help for those who have escaped from totalitarian brutality. We are already helping these brave and desperate souls. We wait in readiness for others who will yet join them. As soon as President Eisenhower announced that the U.S. would...
...Russians moved troops into the Middle East the U.S. would oppose them with arms. At an emergency meeting of the National Security Council that morning the President heard out the reports of his staff, picked off his glasses, and said grimly: "If they move, we can only act like...
...tall order. But it was also a pressing order-and an opportunity to prove in another context Ike's ringing phrase: "We can only act like...
...Just Sit Down." When the court order comes through. Dr. King urged his followers, act sensibly but without pride. On the one hand, "we have been going to the back of the bus for so long there is danger that we instinctively will go straight back there again and perpetuate segregation. Just sit down where a seat is convenient." On the other hand, "I would be terribly disappointed if any of you go back to the buses bragging, 'We. the Negroes, won a victory over the white people' ... I hope nobody will go back with undue arrogance...
After Jack W. Hall, owlish Hawaii regional director for Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, was convicted in 1953 of violating the Smith Act, 22,000 I.L.W.U. members on the piers and plantations suddenly began to relax quietly into the soft, balmy mood of the Islands. Though they had marched out on 116 postwar strikes or work stoppages before Hall was found guilty, they have seldom misbehaved since. The new look comes partly from a flat look in the union's pocketbook after paying for Hall's defense and Bridges' frequent...