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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Soupy Sales will act as the Trotters' coach in a game against the Washington Generals at the Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 31, 1969 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...FIREMEN'S BALL. Under the direction of Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde), a group of firemen stage a party in honor of their retiring chief and act out a neat parody of Communist bureaucracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 31, 1969 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...choice that faced Commander Lloyd Bucher was between seeing his men shot one by one before his eyes or signing a false confession. He signed-and in that act illuminated the whole agonizing dilemma of weighing military duty against elementary humanity-and often against self-preservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: NEW COMPASSION FOR THE PRISONER OF WAR | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Then, by a single desperate act, Czechoslovaks were more stunned and stirred than at any time since the invasion. In the main square of downtown Prague, a student had protested his country's loss of freedom by setting himself afire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A MESSAGE IN FIRE | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...edge of hopelessness," he had written, a group of volunteers had decided to burn themselves, one by one, as a protest. Palach made two demands of the government: an end to censorship and the prohibition of the Soviets' occupation newspaper, Zprávy. Considering the finality of his act, they were remarkably modest requests. The note was signed, "Torch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A MESSAGE IN FIRE | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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