Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what 20 used to." The sweeper had not even heard of the Constituent Assembly, which was sitting only three miles from his mud hut. Told about the abolition of untouchability, he said sourly: "I would like to see the day when some of these words are turned into action...
...most improvident to get rid of the vital weapon you have until you have a better one to put in its place. What has happened to the enormous masses of artillery? . . . What have we ... in organized and equipped formations that can be sent abroad or brought into action in this country...
...exile in Cuba, blamed last fortnight's coup on 1) "powerful forces of Venezuelan capital lacking in social awareness"; 2) foreign oil interests; 3) the "scant attention the U.S. is paying toward Latin America"; 4) an unnamed foreign government. Said he: "There has occurred in Venezuela one more action like those which our democracy [throughout the Americas] has been suffering. Who is the director of this machine of oppression set on the march in our continent? What is the meaning of the notorious presence of a military attaché of a foreign embassy in one of the Caracas military...
...sued. It is not altruism on his part. He cannot afford to lose many suits and stay in business. "But when someone shows me I'm wrong," he says, "I retract in a hurry." If he is sure he is right, he stands pat against threats and legal action...
...Lords. The goal: $28,000, the extra $8,000 to cover costs if Miss Robertson should lose again. Out went a distress message signed by five members. In their zeal, the critics hinted that Miss Robertson had been a victim of M-G-Malice. The studio promptly threatened libel action...