Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salem, Ore., theater owners denounced as un-American a bill to ban pop corn & peanuts from movie houses. In Washington, the C.I.O.'s shirt-sleeved Political Action Committee moved to fancy new quarters formerly occupied by the Dewey-Warren committee...
...sunny sky over Berlin, a Soviet officer at the Air Safety Center, charged with keeping track of the Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail and get aboard...
...papers were playing photographs of the Northwest's earthquake (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) on their front pages, the New York Daily News coolly threw its quake pictures on the floor. It had exclusive, newsstand-shocking news of its own; on Page One, the Daily News slapped a full-page action shot of Stripteasers Georgia Sothern and Joann Collier, zestfully clawing each other outside a nightspot where they both worked...
Melvin L. Zurier '50 and Jerome B. Spunt '50 worked together at Brown to disprove the feasibility of outlawing the party. They held that the action would be bad for the country on legal, practical, and moral grounds...
...signs of war according to Holcombe would be: 1) tendency to talk about a "balance of power" among nations, 2) secret plans for armed action by the Atlantic nations, and 3) appropriation of arms from one Atlantic nation to another without informing the public...