Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Signs of Weakness. The Security Council's invitation and its reassuring promises to the Chinese might conceivably make some sense, but they had also brought Communist China a long step closer to capturing the U.N. membership now held by Nationalist China. Even the U.S., which had long opposed Red China's claims, had been forced to admit by implication that the Communists were China's real rulers...
Whatever else it might have been, the monster was a benison to the innkeepers of Inverness-shire. Reckoning its value as a tourist attraction at a good ?5,000 a season, the grateful Scots christened the beast Bobby and did everything they could to make him feel at home. In 1937 Dom Basil Wedge, science teacher of a local Benedictine school, reported that Bobby had hatched a brood of progeny. The little monsters, said Dom Basil, had been observed by his pupils, and each measured about three feet. At about this time the press took to calling Bobby Nessie...
...good. In 1918, he explained, the navy for testing purposes had laid some 300 horned mines in Loch Ness in strings of eight. When they surfaced they rolled over once or twice, giving the impression of a living organism; then they sank. "At a distance," said he, "they make a fine monster...
Because he plays in one of college football's minor leagues, Halfback Bright may be passed over by the All-America selectors, but the pros have not overlooked him. The professionals cannot make direct offers without violating the rule book, but they can send him questionnaires. So far, Bright has received questionnaires from the New York Giants, the Los Angeles Rams, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Cleveland Browns and the Green Bay Packers. With his senior year still ahead of him, Johnny Bright is in no hurry, but he does hope to play the pro game for a while...
...Traubel gave a progress report on her mystery novel Murder at the Met, scheduled for publication next year. "I have, oh, about 40 or more pages typed already. I hunt and pick at it and the process is very laborious, because I first write it out in longhand. I make notes on incidents and angles in the plot, then work it out in writing...