Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orators claimed the Jasper scandal as certified proof that "the few" were skimming off the cream of Britain's prosperity. Tory Macmillan, a veteran campaigner with a shrewd feeling for the popular mood, was sufficiently discomfited to announce that the government intended to review Britain's companies act to see whether regulations against speculative operations such as Jasper's should be tightened. Exuberantly, Hugh Gaitskell compared Britain's mood to that of 1945, when Labor's Clement Attlee scored an upset victory over Winston Churchill. And from the marginal constituencies, one Labor campaigner after another...
...Under Britain's 1957 Homicide Act, the only murders for which the death penalty is prescribed or permitted are those committed 1) with firearms or explosives, 2) against police or prison officers, 3) in resisting arrest or escaping from custody, 4) in furtherance of theft, or 5) for murder committed a second or subsequent time...
...trial in an anti-Communist military court; simultaneously hints went out that, if everyone behaved, there might be sweeping amnesties for some of the several hundred nationalists languishing in Iraq's prisons. At week's end, Kassem was still maintaining his equilibrium, but his grisly balancing act lacked some of its old assurance...
...relentlessly toward the checking stand. "Somebody stop this thing!" he yelled. "It's wrecking my shot!" Farther across the store, in the midst of the cascading canned goods and shattering glass, a woman shopper shook her head in awed incredulity. Said she: "I've never seen men act like this before...
Carnivorous Fleas. Berio's Allez Hop had to do with a flea escaped from a trained flea act and carried to an official government reception. There the flea so harried the politicians that they were driven to a declaration of war. In the opera's finale, the war was over and the world peaceful but so boring that the trainer decided to release the flea again and start the cycle all over. Although most critics found the atonal opera "a joke in bad taste," some had kind words for its opening striptease scene executed to a honky-tonk...