Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, on April 18, the Argentine Post Office Department announced officially that TIME henceforth was banned from the mails. Soon we learned that Foreign Minister Bramuglia thought the action of the Post Office was "outrageous," obviously the work of "a low-bracket bureaucrat...
...private in the Greek army, 9th division, 43rd brigade. He can hardly remember a time when there was peace in his country. He has fought the Italians and the Germans, now he fights the Communists. A veteran of two years' warfare against the Red guerrillas, he has seen action at Konitsa, in Epirus, in the Grammos mountains, in the Peloponnesus. He does not know what became of his family; like hundreds & thousands of other Greeks, they fled from Red terror. They may be in a refugee camp; they may be dead. Some day, though he cannot imagine when, Georgios...
Communist armies exploded into action again along the Shanghai front, which had lain quiet for 15 uneasy days. From the top floor of Broadway Mansions, Shanghai's tallest apartment building, tenants saw sharp flashes of cannon fire across the Whangpoo River, and the glow of burning villages farther to the north. At week's end, Red General Chen Yi's forces, driving relentlessly from the west and southwest, were within eight miles of the city. Simultaneously, two Red armies from the northwest knifed in toward Woosung Fort at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers...
...away from her botanist husband because she caught him kissing another man in the conservatory, and a Wylie version of Jesus Christ, his name abbreviated to Chris, who shows up in a persistent but inconclusive dream about a B-29 on an A-bomb run. Most of the action takes place in a New York hotel, not far from a doctor's office where the principal character, Philip Wylie (not, Wylie warns, to be confused with Author Philip Wylie) is told on Thursday (when the novel begins) that he probably has cancer, and on Monday (when the novel ends...
Conservation directly affects the public. But Congress has been ducking action on numerous resource-saving plans for an inordinately long time. A little more active public pressure could do a lot of good...