Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back and legs burning from the sun, and as I came around a ledge I ran smack into what joggers call The Wall. Not The Wall at Fenway Park, but a massive physiological-psychological being who sits on your chest and squeezes your lungs and makes each step an act of supreme will worthy of a Nietzschean Superman...
...investigation 16 months ago by Foreign Secretary David Owen) discloses that the oil sanctions began earnestly enough in the first weeks of furor just after Salisbury, resisting Britain's plans for black majority rule, declared its independence on Nov. 11, 1965. Within days, Parliament enacted the Southern Rhodesia Act, reaffirming Crown rule and authorizing the government to impose a variety of sanctions on the rebel colony. On Dec. 17, 1965, an executive order outlawed the shipment of petroleum and petroleum products to Rhodesia...
...Foreign Minister Hafizullah Amin. A former schoolteacher, Amin has so far managed to keep a sure foot on an ideological tightrope. When he is abroad in Havana or at the United Nations, his harangues often sound like those of a Communist, but at home he does not always act like one. He has eagerly signed aid deals with the U.S., Japan and the World Bank, which is setting up fruit-export agencies on profit-making lines. In an interview, Amin insisted that the Russians would never manipulate his country or its economy, and disclosed that he had told both...
Even one Communist-educated intellectual allied to the regime pleads that his country is "not an apple" ready to fall to the Russians, and privately appeals to the U.S. to act like "a great power." But U.S. room for maneuver is as limited as the Afghans'. Conservative Muslim tribesmen in provinces bordering Pakistan have rebelled against government reforms; some air force squadrons, which strafed them last month, have been grounded by the arrest of pilots loyal to Qadir...
...unlike their fans, were solemnly bearing down on their own act. Fred Lynn rifled a flat throw to home plate, giving catcher Carlton Fisk a full three seconds to wait for Jason Thompson's slide. Thompson's challenge was the Tigers' only bona fide scoring bid, and Lynn's throw kept the scoreboard clear for Rice's winning homer in the next half of the inning...