Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Governors' Conference had become a useful invention. In round-table discussions and over friendly drinks, the governors swapped experiences, learned from each other's successes and failures. They tackled problems arising from shared water resources like the Colorado River, discussed the patchwork of state laws which make life miserable for interstate truckers...
...first, big Willis Smith, a corporation lawyer who stood for the South-as-is, couldn't decide whether to make another try for the U.S. Senate. In last month's North Carolina Democratic primary bantam Fair Dealer Frank Graham had led him by 53,383 votes. But since Graham did not get a clear majority in a four-way race, Willis Smith was entitled to a runoff. Smith didn't know whether he could muster enough money and votes. At the last minute, he decided...
...West has failed to bring millions of Filipinos an order under which they can lead reasonably secure lives. LIFE Editor John Osborne has been touring Central and South Luzon, heartland of Huk power. The people he met-the fears, confusions and baffling contradictions in which they are caught-make a story not only of the Philippines but of Asia. His report...
...takes nine tailors to make a man, says the old saw, and at least seven suits to make a well-dressed one, say the tailors. With clothes rationing dead for more than a year, London's Savile Row tailors last week issued a stern manifesto declaring that a different suit for each day of the week was an absolute minimum for the well-dressed man; in fact, added the statement from the trade paper Tailor and Cutter, eight was better than seven-to break the dreadful monotony of turning up each Monday in the same old tweed and each...
...cells, switching lights on & off to keep prisoners awake. When prisoners went to bed they had to pile their clothes in the middle of the room. Then guards would deliberately disarrange the pile and announce that everyone must be dressed in five minutes. Any prisoner who did not make the deadline was forced to do 200 deep-knee bends; if he fainted before he finished the 200, he was revived with cold water and forced to set to again...