Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...standards, the campaign will not be a lively one. Speeches over the government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. are limited to 14 for all the parties; the full-page newspaper advertisements of most American campaigns are almost unknown in Britain. But the British election laws that would make most U.S. votegetters quit before they started are the ones governing campaign expenditures. Said one campaign manager last week...
...candidate has only three weeks to make his case to the electorate, which includes all registered British subjects of 21 years and over. The exceptions include imprisoned felons (this disqualification does not apply in Scotland), lunatics* and members of the House of Lords...
...vociferous supporters in King George's Hall. From now until election day, John Edwards will campaign from soapboxes at the mill gates and in the workers' canteens; he will tramp Blackburn's narrow streets in a steady house-to-house canvass, and he will make numberless speeches to street-corner gatherings from his loudspeaker...
...castle, Celle is about 20 miles from Hannover. It had kept its traditions even through the Third Reich. With the coming of the airlift, Celle's burghers found themselves thrust into an atmosphere of sex and schnapps. From all over Germany eager opportunists rushed to Celle to help make the G.I.s happy. Jazz bands filled the town with boogie-woogie. A hundred new bars opened up. Taxi drivers came from as far away as Hamburg to work in Celle. They took meters off, charged $5 to nearby Fassberg airport, where the Air Force men worked. Black marketeers wandered...
...India will adopt a "wait and see" attitude toward Communist designs on Indo-China and Tibet. Neither Indo-Chinese regime-that of Communist Ho Chi Minh or French-backed Bao Dai-would be recognized by New Delhi. Then the Prime Minister turned to President Truman's decision to make the hydrogen bomb. "If you have come to the conclusion that the world is a pretty bad show," he said, "then let the hydrogen bomb put an end to it. If you want to carry on the world with decency, obviously you will have...