Word: enacting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Another way was supplied by Nature. The dust bowl of 1934-35 and the great drought of 1936 cut farm surpluses. But a fresh wave of poverty swept families westward from their deadlands to enact the saga of the Okies and tread the Grapes of Wrath...
Back in Washington, he had left a party uneasy about the effect of Senator Joe McCarthy's assault on the State Department and slow to come to his Administration's defense, a Democratic Congress that had flatly refused to enact most...
...play tells the story of an elderly shoemaker, whose young wife's flirtations and shrewishness anger him into desertion, while she battles with sinters and adverse public opinion. He later returns disguised as a puppeteer to re-enact their marriage and separation with puppets. After the shoemaker is assured of his wife's fidelity, he removes his disguise. The status quo ante bellum is then resumed as the shoemaker's prodigious wife is provoked to throw a fit at the final curtain...
...applause rises in the lecture room, the professor grabs his notes, smiles uneasily, and makes his way out of the hall. Students and teachers enact this strained scene twice each year in bringing courses to an end with the traditional final lecture...
Krokodil, a humor magazine, did not seem to think it was being funny. Neither did the Russian people who, never having known anything better, believe that the show that they will enact next Sunday is really an election as well as a holiday...