Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...junior-ranking man in each case is how he takes it. When Smith got his first general's star and was made ADC (assistant division commander), the promotion did not come from Rupertus but from "topside." The first day Smith assumed his duties as ADC, Rupertus decided to make a hospitable gesture and reached for a bottle. "Have a drink," he growled...
...blow fell only six weeks after Greece's ECA Chief Paul Porter had told a U.S. correspondent: "You can say I'm optimistic-better make it cautiously optimistic." Added Porter: "We have attained relative economic stability, and for the first time the Greek budget looks like a real budget!" Porter drew the reporter's attention to the fact that for the first time since the war the gold sovereign rate had dropped, taxes were being collected, and some foreign capital was trickling in. The Greeks were getting out those long-hoarded gold sovereigns from their mattresses...
Until a few weeks ago the 11,000 citizens of the sober little town of Saint-Junien in central France got along all right with their Communist mayor. Then M. le Maire Martial Pascaud decided to make a gesture of obeisance to his masters in the Kremlin. Tottering old Communist Leader Marcel Cachin paid a visit to Saint-Junien. To mark the occasion, Mayor Pascaud marched a party of 100 local Communists down Saint-Junien's main street, the Boulevard Leon Gambetta, to hang new signs on each corner rechristening the street Boulevard Joseph Staline. When the street...
...While Shaw lay abed, word got around that he had vetoed a plan by New York promoters who wanted to make a ten to 15-minute film of him giving his farewell message to mankind. Shaw told them: "Quite impossible now. The Bernard Shaw you contemplate is dead, and cannot be resuscitated by an ancient specter exactly like every other old dotard with a white beard, piping and croaking into a microphone...
...argued for a verdict of guilty. "Socrates made a nuisance of himself. He was a gadfly," said Al. Jack the Actor objected. "Socrates believed that free thinking was the prime requisite of living the good life. How could that make him guilty if that's all he tried for?" Theo the Lawyer agreed: "There was no law on the books that Socrates violated. This was simply a trumped-up charge. I say he did not get a fair trial...