Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jellybacks." When one of Dr. Coggins' friends asked a county commissioner if he had not eaten with Negroes on hunting trips, he replied: "They eat after we're through." Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins angrily denounced the firing. "I am sick about it ... an evil act," but Collins had no power to intervene...
...Brother Act. The rule of Nicaragua fell on Tacho's sons even before their father's death. Plump, self-effacing Luis, 34, who by grace of a push from his father was First Designate (Vice President), took on Tacho's executive duties and-after Tacho died-the blue-and-white sash of office. West Point-educated Anastasio Jr. ("Tachito"), 32, commander of the 4,100-man Guardia National, jailed something like 3,000 suspected enemies of the regime, personally tested many of them with a newly imported lie detector,*soon freed all but 300. He unearthed...
...Next!" called the director. She dropped the lighted cigarette and walked quickly into the casting room. She smiled at the director, talked about last year's productions. The producer asked her how she liked summer stock. Then, "All right, end of Act four, line...
Even as Dulles flew back to the U.S. proclaiming that the conference had made "solid gains," the French and British threw the case into the U.N. The two asked the Security Council to hold an urgent debate of Egypt's "unilateral" act as a "manifest threat to international peace and security...
...obsession for martyrdom. In a piece of literary criticism written ten days before for the León Cronista, López Pérez said: "Immortality is the aim of life and of glorious death." His acquaintances said that he grumbled incessantly against President Somoza. His act was patently suicidal, and his motive may well have been an itch for self-glorification...