Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...moment, there was no time to learn more. Ambulances nosed, moaning, through the crowd, loaded the wounded aboard. Presidential Secretary Charles Ross, who had been in the White House offices across Pennsylvania Avenue, rushed inside Blair House to find out: Would the President still make his trip to dedicate a statue in Arlington? Harry Truman-who had shrugged hurriedly into a dark blue suit and had run downstairs to look cautiously out the front door-did not hesitate. Said he: "Why, of course...
Defense Secretary George Marshall was trying to straighten out the snafu. He ordered the services i) to make up their minds how many more men they will need in the next six months, 2) give 30 days notice to those who are going to be recalled, 3) inform all others they will not be mobilized for at least four months. He also directed that reservists should be kept on active duty only until volunteers and draftees meet manpower requirements. Around the Pentagon, estimates of those requirements went up again last week with reports of the reverses in Korea...
...American people . . . will make no efforts for a common defense unless their [European] partners value their freedom so high that they are willing to exert all their forces. Obviously, the U.S. will invest strong forces in Germany only if the Germans themselves participate in the defense of their country...
...North Korea the U.S. and its allies have routed a Communist government which once ruled 9,000,000 people. Here, for the first time, the free world could make an on-the-spot study of the results of years of Communist rule, and discover what must be done and what undone if liberation is to win the lasting approval of the liberated. Last week in the former Communist capital of Pyongyang, TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin looked for the lessons which U.N. liberators might learn from the pattern of Russian rule in North Korea. His report...
...cheerful, blond young soldier, and he asked Elder La's help in haggling for an apple with a fruit vendor. Elder La tried to ask the soldier the meaning of the green hatbands worn by some of the Russian officers, but he couldn't seem to make the soldier understand his question...