Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were these pathetic "expatriates"? The Szeklers (in Hungarian, Szekely, pronounced roughly Sáy-Kaiy)* are in no sense Hungarian expatriates. They make up less than one third of Transylvania's population (3,400,000). Most of them settled in Transylvania and the Banat on their way into Europe from Asia in the Ninth Century, before there was any such thing as a Hungary. Through most of their history they have had no more desire to be affiliated with Hungary than with Rumania...
...field. Not since Marshal Haig sent tens of thousands of Britons to their slaughter at the Somme in 1916 had a high command been so prodigal of its men. Stung by its failure, in two months of bitter warfare, to subdue the stubborn Finns, apprehensive that outside help might make the Finns unconquerable by spring, Soviet Russia had risked its morale, its prestige and perhaps its future on a frontal assault against Finland's Mannerheim Line...
...Germany has lost half of all her import & export trade because of the blockade. As a result a German trade mission headed by Dr. Karl Ritter, former Nazi Ambassador to Brazil and largely responsible for the huge pre-war Brazilian-German barter trade, has been in Moscow to make bigger,better arrangements. Last week, as the mission started for home, it was announced that another Nazi-Bolshevik trade treaty had been signed which, Nazi officials boasted, would give Germany all the imports she needs to defeat the purposes of the Allied blockade. The Russians were not less boastful in pointing...
...arrived a chubby, button-eyed, four-and-a-half-year-old boy, nicknamed by reporters "the Kokonor Kid" (after his birthplace in western China*), who seemed indubitably to be the 14th incarnation of the Buddha of Mercy. His coronation as Dalai Lama was scheduled for this week. To make sure that the enthronement takes place, the Chinese Government appropriated. $30,000, sent a special emissary, General Wu Chung-hsin, to this land where nothing can be done without bribery. Last fortnight General Wu visited Tibet's three greatest monasteries, whose abbots supervise the selection of a Dalai Lama...
...long as he lives. This week in the Potala, lavish with gold and lacquer and stinking with yak-butter lamps, the Embodiment will kneel, facing east, in a big hall where envoys of foreign powers will bring him gifts. When messages from them have been read aloud, he will make three genuflections and nine prostrations in gratitude for celestial favors. The Regent will clothe the Dalai Lama in garments worn by his predecessor. Enthroned, the boy will receive homage from the high lamas. After that, everyone will banquet. The Dalai Lama will undoubtedly exhibit great dignity during these ceremonies...