Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...been a nationalist, never a Communist. Until the Americans recognized the Emperor, I was not convinced that Viet Nam was really going to be independent. Many others would like to escape. But even important functionaries may not travel without a special permit. Only my ministerial rank allowed me to make a wide tour of inspection in northern Tonkin. I managed to get to the village where I was born, hid out there, and surrendered when a French patrol came along...
That night, after a long drive and a long talk with the husky-voiced stranger, Sidney Frame had a telephone call of his own to make. "I've got another chappie for you," he told a friend in the special investigation branch of army headquarters. The words meant that Sidney Frame, "the trotters' friend," had just persuaded one more of the 7,000-odd deserters still missing from the British armed services to give himself up. "Sometimes I think he's balmy to do all this," said Mrs. Frame, "but then, I suppose every man must have...
Britain's assured Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Sevan was certain that socialized medicine was getting more popular with British doctors. Said he to a group of Durham miners: "I will almost make you a promise that before very long the British Medical Association will put up a statue . . . called...
...study of these records gives clues about the high atmosphere. The waves that make the 160-mile jump experience various vicissitudes. In the warm air near the earth they move fast. Then they slow down gradually as the air grows colder. Passing through the stratosphere (temp. - 70° F.) they hit a warmer layer of air 30 to 35 miles above the earth which turns them back down to the microphones...
...time the waves take to make the trip (up to 14 minutes) and the direction in which they are moving on arrival tell scientists the temperature and wind velocity in the zone above 20 miles. Such information is important to meteorology because the winds of the upper atmosphere affect the weather below. It is also important to the designers of long-range military rockets, which spend much of their flying time above 20 miles...