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Word: actes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corruption and sloth, is happy over U.S. help but objects: "We are pressed for time here in Laos. We find ourselves going into interminable discussions here. Then the decision goes to Washington, where there is more exhaustive discussion, and an enormous amount of time is lost before we can act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Aiding Friends | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, April 21--The Senate rejected efforts to strip proposed Taft-Hartley Act changes from the Kennedy labor bill today. It also voted down an effort to write in Taft-Hartley changes sought by the Eisenhower administration...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Kennedy's Labor Bill Withstands Two Amendment Bids by Senate; Mao to Subsidize Red Communes | 4/22/1959 | See Source »

Wiliam M. Kargman '61 expressed puzzlement over the assertion that the HSA could act contrary to the interests of the student body. "I can't see the dangers involved here," he commented

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Requests Advisory Position On HSA Board | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

...speaks all but a few of his lines in Japanese. Marooned with him on a South Pacific island near the end of World War II is a bird-brained, teen-age American G.I. who chitters with naive notions and cliches. The Japanese is seemingly incapable of an ignoble act, while the American is a bundle of petty spites and treachery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...biggest brokerage house, began to run ads in 210 newspapers entitled "Danger! Inside Tip Ahead." (It was the same ad Merrill Lynch used in February 1947, when the Dow-Jones industrials were at 180 v. 605 currently.) The Securities and Exchange Commission also got into the act; it said that it had observed "indications of increased manipulative activity" and warned that "the amateur who plays the market is asking for trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECULATION: Wall Street Can Help Curb Its Excesses | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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