Word: enacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emperor's Nightingale" tells the story of a poor little rich boy, shut off from the world outside his home and imprisoned in a room filled with amazing toys. Dreaming of the far off woods, he suddenly see his playthings come to life and enact the Anderson story...
...Went to Griffith Stadium to watch old-time ball players re-enact the last half-inning of the Washington Senators-New York Giants World Series game of Oct. 10, 1924. The President sat in the same box from which President Calvin Coolidge had watched the Senators win the original contest 4-3* and take their only World Series championship. Truman opened the affair (held before a regular New York Yankees-Washington game) by making a southpaw throw from the stands to 62-year-old Hank Gowdy, catcher for the Giants...
...Werner Egk, it deals with Columbus' journeys to America and has some mildly metaphysical ideas built into the libretto. But Berlin was less interested in the story than in the style. Composer Egk (rhymes with peck) has his principal singers stand inconspicuously beside the orchestra while ballet dancers enact the story. The chorus is posted behind gauze curtains...
...nearly 20 nations as an important source of revenue. Examples: in France 36% of the government's revenues come from such taxes; in Italy, 18%; in the U.S.S.R., an estimated 90%. More than half of the states now have sales taxes; last month Georgia became the 29th to enact one. But Congress has repeatedly shied away from such a tax. What are the arguments for & against...
...full session, the House of Representatives would not go on record in favor of Universal Military Training. The Bill, House 1025, would ask the U.S. Congress to enact legislation requiring Universal Military Training...