Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...wants to make noise in sedate Switzerland, he is expected to go off to a mountain and yodel. Last year the U.S.'s Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. decided to liven things up: it introduced the jukebox to Switzerland...
...week's end, the first wave of replies came in. Sweden promised an ambulance unit "completely in line with Swedish tradition," Israel declined to send ground troops "because our neighbors still obstinately refuse to make peace," Norway offered merchant shipping, Egypt nothing at all. Warships from Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Britain had already joined the U.S.-led naval force. British, and Australian planes are also in action. There were indications that Canada, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan and the Philippines would send troops...
...nine U.N. members not asked for armed aid: the U.S., already in Korea up to its ears; Nationalist China, whose offer to send troops was being stalled because the U.S. State Department still could not make up its mind to cooperate with Chiang Kaishek; Costa Rica whose constitution forbids it to have an army and the six of the 59 U.N. members (Yugoslavia and the five Soviet-bloc nations) who did not give some form of backing to the U.N. action in Korea...
South-West Africa is a part-desert, part-fertile country with barely one inhabitant for each of its 317,725 square miles: 38,000 whites and 294,000 blacks. But diamonds, minerals, karakul pelts and farm products make it a valuable property. Germany grabbed it in 1885 and broke the power of the native tribes by a series of savage murders. South Africa seized it from Germany during World War I, and received a League of Nations mandate...
...Englishman's home used to be his castle," roared outraged Householder William Clarke of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, but the protest was in vain. The local district council, of which he himself was a member, had decided that Clarke's house would make a better village office building. When Clarke refused to budge, the council sent out five burly bailiffs to carry out the condemnation order. Aided by two casual volunteers, the bailiffs picked up Clarke, dragged him down a rose-lined drive and dumped him, in a public road...