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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tragically Unprepared." "There is, however, one circumstance which could give rise to a world war that no one wanted. If we, through the appearance of division, through weakness and lack of purpose, encourage the Communists to attempt some new act of aggression, this may well trigger off a war, and a war for which we are tragically unprepared. The hazards of flexibility and vacillation are far greater than those of strict adherence to right principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Debate on Berlin | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

McDonald noted that the Loan Act specifies some preference for students who intend to teach in secondary schools or who have especially strong preparation in science, mathematics, engineering, or a modern foreign language...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Representatives Meet Here For Defense Loan Program Talks | 3/7/1959 | See Source »

MOSCOW--The Soviet Union Thursday denounced the U.S. detention of a Soviet fishing trawler off New Foundland as a provocative act...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eisenhower Calls Berlin Meeting As Russians Suggest Negotiation; Soviets Protest Boarding of Ship | 3/6/1959 | See Source »

...Democrats' letter opposed University acceptance of $26,807, under the Defense Education Act of 1958. In addition to signing a loyalty oath, borrowers must must also swear that they do not believe in or support any organization that "believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Labels Loyalty Oath 'Undesirable' | 3/6/1959 | See Source »

...they ever get to playing it. Perhaps because every aspect of the plight of the Characters is so elaborately discussed, they seem not so much melodramatic as sordid--in spite of a haunting, Flying Dutchman quality in their eternal fixedness in agony. For good stretches of the long first act, before sordidity passes into ghastliness and thus takes on some interest, the effect is almost numbing...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Six Characters in Search of an Author | 3/5/1959 | See Source »

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