Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Comptroller of the Currency. The borrowing arose, said the examiners, because a number of Lance's relatives "were experiencing extreme financial difficulties and needed additional funds to meet living expenses." The sweeping, 90-page complaint was the final act in the agencies' seven-month investigation of Lance, the Calhoun bank and the National Bank of Georgia (NBG), which Lance headed in 1975 and 1976. The investigation began shortly before he resigned last September as Jimmy Carter's Director of Management and Budget...
...tell his family. When his sons-in-law, Edward Cox and David Eisenhower, argued the case for delaying his decision at least for a few days, Nixon recalls, "I said that this was just like a Greek tragedy: you could not end it in the middle of the second act or the crowd would throw chairs at the stage. In other words, the tragedy had to be seen through until the end as fate would have...
...when she learned of the kidnaping. Since then, she has left her home only three times−to attend the funeral for her husband's police escort, to attend Mass on Easter Sunday, and to visit the Vatican offices of Caritas, the Catholic relief agency that volunteered to act as an intermediary. The rest of the time she has remained in seclusion in the modest yellow brick apartment building in northern Rome where the family has lived for 13 years...
...with, there's a major shift in mood: Figaro is not straight comedy, which The Barber certainly is. Instead, it is a fairly cynical look at marriage (the four-years-later episode of Count Almaviva and Rosina's romance), the master-servant relationship (the Count repays Figaro's first act help by demanding the droit du signeur of Figaro's bride), all made more complicated than necessary by intrigues and mishaps. The cast manages generally to overcome the mood-change by keeping the tone as lighthearted as possible and by stressing funny one-liners ("his pockets were full of persuasive...
...threats to our environment posed by advanced technologies. In this regard it is interesting to compare the anti-nuclear movement to the anti-war movement. The latter is often accused of having radicalized people without politicizing them. That is, people came to see the war as an isolated immoral act that demanded action, but when it was over, previous demonstrators felt comfortable that the system was "working" again...