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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the Holocaust, the Catholic Church turned its back on the fate of the Jews; now comes a new head of that church to pray for the dead at Auschwitz. Let us hope his act signals a new era of ecumenism and brotherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Jul. 9, 1979 | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Under the 1973 Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, the Department of Energy has the power to direct the distribution of gasoline supplies to the nation's 12,000 wholesalers and 225,000 retailers whenever shortages occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Red Tape and More Red Tape | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...their bad instincts, so what you have is a lot of trash. Revere and Nantasket have always been adjacent to amusement parks, and the hush of the waves is complimented by traffic noise and the sound of nearby mechanical thrills. Revere Beach, however, is beginning to clean up its act--the amusements are going elsewhere, and the beach is expected to lose its Coney Island Jr. atmosphere. All of these beaches are accessible by subway. There is no admission, no parking...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Like Lemmings to the Sea... | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

Most of them are hilarious, like a young couple skating together for the first time, the woman trying desperately to be graceful in her short shorts and her boyfriend trying to stay in control--while enjoying the view. Equally amusing are an older couple trying fruitlessly to act young again but having a great time, and racing tots who look ready to fall off their skates...

Author: By Pam Mccuen, | Title: Shake, Rattle and Roll | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...numbers would appear in the newscasts that night and the papers the next day: nearly 600 charged with criminal tresspassing in the largest act of anti-nuclear in the largest act of anti-nuclear civil disobedience since "the Seabrook 1414" in April 1977, and over 15,000 at a separate legal rally held on a strip of beach a mile from the Shoreham reactor...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Welcome to Shoreham | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

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