Word: deed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draft (which he had edited considerably with black pencil after the last typing), he was relaxed and jovial. On his desk in front of the lectern rested an inch-high plate bearing the Latin motto, Suaviter in Modo, Fortiter in Re, and the translation, "Gently in Manner, Strongly in Deed."* When someone mentioned the motto, which has been on the President's desk for more than a year, he cracked: "Maybe I'd better hide that; that proves I'm an egghead...
...Originally called "Moritat" (literally, a murderous deed), a song style used by 17th and 18th century street-fair singers, who tearfully presented the latest atrocity in ballad form on the streets of Germany...
Uncle Vanya (by Anton Chekhov) is off-Broadway's latest good deed. This time though the playhouse is a tiny one on the lower East Side, the players include Cinemactor Franchot Tone and other Broadway names. Directing Vanya, as he earlier did The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, David Ross has scrupulously put Chekhov's intentions first: if he sometimes falters with so trickily delicate a play, he oftener succeeds. Chekhov's provincial tale of pathetically muffed chances and comically muddled lives, of a pompous fool for whom better people have toiled and a shallow woman...
...Israel's December raid on Syrian frontier outposts near the Sea of Galilee, in which 56 Syrians and six Israelis were killed. It was Israel's fourth such "reprisal" attack in two years, and, in the words of the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., "a deed so out of proportion with the provocation that it cannot be accurately described as a retaliatory raid...
Every sign pointed to a long, noisy and hyperpolitical session, with nearly every word and deed aimed at next Nov. 6. Most of what is said and done will be affected profoundly by the heartbeats of two men. Political maneuvering in and between both parties will be influenced by the condition of Dwight Eisenhower's health and the course of his political decisions. The practical operations will revolve around the heart and hand of Texas' Democratic Senator, Lyndon Johnson...