Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told Doudle that Sirhan would admit only the "mechanical act" of pulling the trigger. The jury, said Cooper, would be called on to consider "not only the act but the intent" before deciding whether Sirhan is guilty as charged. Then he asked: "Now that you have been told the defendant committed the act, would that prejudice you so that you couldn't try him for intent?" Doudle said that it would, and was excused as a juror...
Under the Homestead Act of 1862, squatters took possession of millions of free acres of land in the West, but now there is not much worthwhile public land available. A few years ago, a Louisiana contractor named Louis Ray tried to establish himself as a homesteader on one of the last frontiers. Ray made a claim to several acres of coral reef that lay barely submerged five miles off the Florida coast...
...before he has built the edifices on which his reputation rests. One must bring to the play more than the play can possibly bring on its own: a knowledge of Nabokov's prevailing predilections. The most fundamental of these is that Nabokov has always regarded writing as an act of magic, of conjuring up rather than noting down, of producing totally unexpected rabbits from nonexistent hats...
...starter, Waltz blows the top off a mountain; then he goes on to sink an is land and dig a moon crater or two. In Act II, a sequence of absurdist hilarity, the nation's council of generals begins bidding at 2,000 crowns and goes to 1,000,000 in a vain effort to buy Waltz's infernal machine. During the negotiations, these senile clowns play with toy automobiles and sail paper airplanes at one another and into the audience...
...act that was publicly denounced by Professional Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair as a violation of church-and-state separation. NASA, however, has received more than 800 letters approving the Scripture reading-many of them also proposing that Mrs. O'Hair be rocketed to the moon and left there...