Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon, who has had little time to act on the strong recommendations of his environmental task force, the Santa Barbara disaster was a reminder of the ineffective, 15-year-old laws that rule offshore drilling. Nixon promised to put fresh teeth in federal regulations "so that this kind of incident will not occur again." But his Secretary of the Interior did little to reinforce the President's pledge. Nixon had sent Walter Hickel to the disaster area in a presidential jet. At first, Hickel impressed Santa Barbarans by persuading all oil companies in the area to suspend operations...
...Provocation. So far, there is no sign that the recent shooting will be used for similar purposes. But Russians are alarmed by the Tass description of the event as "a provocation." In Communist jargon, that is the term for an anti-Soviet political act that is usually the result of a conspiracy and consequently calls for severe countermeasures...
...judges, who choose the winner. A total of 43 escolas de samba are taking part this year, and the larger ones, like the Estacāo Primeira de Mangueira-last year's champion, named after a stop on a suburban rail line-bring 7,000 participants into their act. While the poor flood into the limelight, the rich and the middle class either leave town or amuse themselves at exclusive balls. Individual tickets for the Municipal Theater Ball, the poshest of them all, run to $50, a box for eight to $3,750. The revelers arrive in psychedelic splendor...
...everyone can afford to live it up more than once a year. But the poor Brazilian is kept away from places of entertainment by his color and his clothes; he wouldn't know how to act, and he doesn't have the money anyway. Carnaval is the only time of the year when the doorman or the janitor who has worked for the rich man all year long can dress up in the rich man's clothing and feel that the two of them have something in common...
...minutes before a Miami Beach press conference, called last week to announce the new commissioner of baseball, one reporter asked an official if the name that was leaked earlier was indeed the choice of the team owners. "Yes," the reporters were told, "it is Bowie Kuhn, but please, gentlemen, act surprised." They did-but it was no act. Sportscaster Red Barber's reaction was typical: "Who? I never heard...