Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOSTON HERALD: The rejection of Admiral Strauss's appointment was an act of ruthless vindictiveness...
...startling new problem of keeping far-out candidates like Homer out of newscasts arose because of the Federal Communications Commission's overly cautious interpretation of the Communications Act, which declares that any station that lets any legally qualified candidate use its air time must give equal opportunities to competing candidates. Until last February, this provision was interpreted to cover political campaigning. Then a perennial also-ran in Chicago named Lar Daly (TIME, March 30) claimed that it also governed straight newscasts, charged that WBBM-TV had violated the act by not giving him equal time after showing film clips...
...been transformed. Church people often ask me: 'Have things been successful? How many have become Christians? Is this worth the investment?' When I first came here, I was anxious to see practical results. Now I've learned that one must act according to one's conviction in relation to others, and then let them go without standing around to see what the effect has been. If someone says, 'What are you doing here?' I would just say, 'I'm here...
...synthesis of new elements): "I am concerned about the virtual absence of easy, direct communication with scientists of the Soviet Union . . . Poland, Czechoslovakia and China. If we do not get a proper perspective on the development of science in countries such as China, we shall not be able to act rationally, and will surely suffer a rude awakening in the not too distant future." ¶Bell Labs' Walter H. Brattain (1956 prize-co-inventor of the transistor) said that before World War II the U.S. was "a nation that offered asylum to independent and nonconformist thinking individuals," but after...
...refuses to listen to reason from anyone; but he cannot entirely ignore the warning voice of fear. Does he really love the girl? Does he, at his age, really want to live the emotional life of a young man? Wouldn't he be wiser to act his age and somehow find his peace? In the happy-unhappy ending, the victim-hero of the drama accepts at life's hands the lesser evil, the larger hope...