Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts published or still secret had come from a giant mechanism of men and machines, designed specifically to detect an atomic explosion anywhere in the world. When Intelligence got a tip that the Russians had solved the atomic riddle, the mechanism swung into action...
...halls, brothels, sketching satchel-eyed lechers in boiled shirts and top hats, provocative cocottes in billowing pantalettes and immense bonnets. On his advertisements for nightclubs, books, magazines and plays, Lautrec had portrayed his disreputable and talented cronies with the subtlety of a Japanese print backed by the dash and action of a circus broadside...
After this ruling, Italy's semiofficial, two-million-member Catholic Action organization thought it was safe to ask for exclusive permission "to sell souvenirs in St. Peter's Square." With lifted hand, Cardinal Nicola Canali, who governs Vatican City, thundered: "No! St. Peter's is a house of prayer...
Last week the Department of Justice filed a civil suit against the Lorain Journal and the Horvitz brothers for conspiracy to monopolize the dissemination of news, advertising and other information. It was the first antitrust action charging a newspaper with seeking to injure a competing radio station. Besides refusing ads, the Journal was accused of trying to persuade employees of WEOL to quit, and of making a deal with an Elyria paper not to circulate or solicit ads in Lorain...
...free-lance fan magazine piece about the late Crooner Russ Colombo won him a Warners' writer contract when he was 20, and his career began in earnest. As a producer, after nine years of scripting, he quickly displayed a knack for grabbing story ideas out of the headlines (Action in the North Atlantic, Destination Tokyo), and for hastily getting aboard profitable trends. Example: no sooner had Paramount proved that a spicy James M. Cain story like Double Indemnity could be put on the screen than Wald got to work on Cain's Mildred Pierce...