Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend, I would like at least to have a cat or a parakeet to whom I could talk." At the time, not even her family would talk to her any more because they believed her guilty of "Teufelsbuhlschaft," or coupling-with-the-devil. Her tormentors considered this an act so evil that excorcism by prayer was useless. The devil had to be flailed...
...physical exercise is good for them, but there has been relatively little scientific evidence to back them up. Now Herbert A. deVries, a University of Southern California physical-education professor, has conducted controlled before-and-after tests and has found, he contends, that exercise makes the bodies of septuagenarians act like those of 40-year-olds...
Polyethylene oxide, the material that eased Highburton's passage, is known to chemists as a long-chain polymer because it consists of lengthy strings of linked molecules. In the water near a ship, the molecular chains act much like an array of thin parallel tubes, allowing water to flow smoothly back along the hull but retarding its movement in any other direction. As a result, the friction-building turbulence that is normally generated by a ship slicing through the water is sharply reduced...
...much easier for M. De Montherlant to think himself a hero when he faced women (and women chosen for his purpose) than when he was obliged to act the man among men-something many women have done better than he, for that matter. -De Beauvoir, The Second...
Ionesco's Maid to Marry shares the second act with Apple Bit, and director Mary King Austin chose just the right juxtaposition. Its eminently civilized lady and gentleman are quite absurd. They sit on a 1950's park bench and vacillate between violently tearing up the Times and making profound comments on professions, future, past, ungrateful children. Not a wild west thriller by any means. Still, the patter's amusing...