Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voice: Booooo! We want action...
Other Voices: Action-Big Bums- Booooo! Now-Action-Hissssss...
...satisfied." Within the massive stone building, they turned down the righthand corridor, pressed into the Council Chamber, overflowed its 150 chairs, jammed themselves against the creaky wooden railings. With George Washington and Andrew Jackson looking down from the walls, they booed the police, cheered their leaders, itched for action. Behind a table sat the Council, headed by T. Semmes Walmsley, 46, redheaded, affable Acting Mayor...
...crew of a freighter do what they are told, ask few questions. But last week the German crew of the blunt-nosed broad-beamed Falke, reached the limit of cowed endurance. In Port of Spain, Trinidad, they begged the German consul to take action against their captain, before the dumpy little Falke should be sunk as a pirate...
Judge Selah [B. Strong] of the New York Supreme Court is quoted as declaring : "Frankly, a separation action [in the U. S.] is usually alimony-grabbing and nothing else...