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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats like Connally or Ronald Reagan do not deserve the Republican nomination. Both of them are basically actors who can "act" the part of President, but they are lacking in the psychological depth needed to make the important national and international decisions in the atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...dastardly murder of Lord Mountbatten [Sept. 10] and his 15-year-old grandson has shocked the civilized world. The act only serves to set back any real solution to Ireland's problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Assassination by political terrorists is a reprehensible, morally unjustifiable act. But it is perhaps because of centuries of barbarous oppression and injustice under British rule that some Irish have yet to learn the laws of civilized warfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Balancing Act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE SOVIET RIDDLE | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...maker who destroyed one revolutionary wave after another. He fought the implications of his own revolution as fiercely as he did the institutions he had originally overthrown. But he had set a goal beyond human capacity. In his last months, bereft of speech, able to act only a few hours a day, he had passion strong enough for one last outburst against the pragmatists. And then that great, demonic, prescient, overwhelming personality disappeared like the great Emperor Qin Shihuang-di (Ch'in Shih Huang-ti), with whom he often compared himself while dreading the oblivion which was his fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Mao Tse-tung | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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