Word: deeded
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...does not intend to pay blackmail for American prisoners, called on the nation for patience. "We must have faith in the community of nations and in the tremendous influence of world opinion," the President proclaimed. "We must not fall into a Communist trap, and through impetuous words or deed endanger the lives of those imprisoned airmen . . . We must support the U.N. in its efforts so long as those efforts hold out any promise of success...
...dying hours of 1954, the deed at last was done. By the narrow but still sufficient margin of 27 votes, the French National Assembly ratified West German rearmament within NATO...
...turning state's evidence, Jones got his freedom. In Houston, having opened with an endowment of some $10 million from the estate of William Marsh Rice, Rice Institute has continued to grow and flourish. Last week in Baytown, 40 miles from Rice Institute, an old recluse finished the deed he tried to do in jail 54 years ago. At 79, onetime Valet Charley Jones picked up a pistol and killed himself...
...Sample: Three boy scouts reported that their good deed for the day had been helping an old lady cross the street. Asked the scoutmaster: "Why did it take all three of you to help her across?" Chorused the boys: "She didn't want to cross...
...Kuluva, as the Russian spymaster, radiates the impersonal menace of a prescription for arsenic, while as Gouzenko, Townes suggests very gracefully a sort of soulful bureaucrat. Unluckily, there is an epilogue in which Gouzenko himself appears, wearing a black cloth mask that makes him look like an executioner. In deed, if the picture survives, it is not because he fails to lower...