Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...like to distinguish clearly between a program which looks toward rearming Germany and Japan on the basis of opportunism and expediency, and the program which I suggest-which is to restore these two nations to positions of responsibility and respectability in the family of nations. The former is a make shift on the purely military level. The latter is a long-term political program for peace...
Life in Pyongyang had been pleasant for the Korean Communist bosses, too. The offices of Communist Premier Kim II Sung make Syngman Rhee's modest quarters in Seoul look like a Trappist's cell. To enter Kim's personal office you have to walk through four successive anterooms past four portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot...
...colonel's aides smiled wanly and said, "It's the same story all over again. We just don't have properly trained people. If we had just six Americans who could speak fluent Korean we could make something out of this show. We never have them, but you can bet your life the Russians...
Soon after Seoul fell on Sept. 26, the U.S. 1st Marine Division and 7th Infantry Division which had made the landings at Inchon found themselves back on LSTs and assault transports. Reinforced by the newly arrived 3rd Infantry Division, they were slated to make another amphibious landing-this time at Wonsan on Korea's east coast. But on Oct. 10, just before what was to have been Dday, troops of the R.O.K. I Corps, driving overland, captured Wonsan ahead of schedule. The war had moved so fast that the big knockout assault scheduled to be commanded by Major General...
...speaking trip to the U.S. last week, Canada's Finance Minister Douglas Abbott had a confession to make. "Our public men [have failed] to tell our story in your country," he told a convention of bankers at Whitefield, N.H. "Today [I intend] to cast aside any restraining influence of that modesty which I hope is a Canadian virtue, and talk to you . . . unblushingly . . . of the virtual transformation which has been wrought in the Canadian economy within the past ten years...