Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Joseph Stalin did not bother to make a speech in answer to Harry Truman's call for a halt to Russia's bullyboy tactics. The Soviet dictator let his leading historian Eugene Tarle do the verbal hatchet work...
...Point Barrow, said the airmen, and you could isolate them like the mighty Japanese bases of Truk and Rabaul were isolated in the Pacific war. You would bomb the planes and shelters and leave them all shivering in the cold with no place to march to. Don't make U.S. airplanes vulnerable by scattering them through the wilderness, they said. Let them range from bases in the heartland...
Ente Sila had prepared a list of all peasants eligible for land. Beneficiaries must not own more than ten acres. Expropriated land had been charted according to productive value. Plots had been rearranged to make each nearly equal to the others in productive possibilities. They were to be assigned by the peasants' drawing lots on appointed days. The lot-drawing had won unanimous peasant approval. "Man is imperfect," observed one villager. "Only luck can assign each man the right piece of land. Only fortune can know what is best for each man in the future...
...ball. Instead of taking off from a scant three yards behind the line of scrimmage and weaving his way through the openings (as in the T), Fullback Davison got up his speed well back, power-piled his way into the Cornell line the way fullbacks used to do. To make it slightly fancier, the play included an old-style fake reverse. Davison ripped through center for ten yards...
...bunter in the business. As a shortstop, he had none of the easy, fluid grace of the Cardinals' Marty Marion, nor the rifle arm of the Red Sox's Vern Stephens. But Rizzuto learned to scoot around his short-field like a hopped-up water bug, to make throws from any position short of standing on his head. Within five years after Stengel's blunt advice, the "Scooter" had nailed down the shortstop job with the New York Yankees...