Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...outrageously courageous decision of Dairyman Hubert Mendenhall and 25 other Quakers to leave the U.S. and settle in peaceful Costa Rica [TIME, Oct. 9] should make Americans stop and think. Or at least think-if we can't stop...
...black headlines and the yards of published speculation, only two men knew what had been done or undone at the private, one-hour meeting on Wake Island. One had flown briskly back to Tokyo and gone about his war. The other had flown back to San Francisco to make a speech. A performance of The Barber of Seville had been canceled to give him a platform in the War Memorial Opera House. By the time Harry Truman strode on stage, he had provoked the U.S. into rapt curiosity. But the President did little to satisfy...
...Gentlemen-Now I suppose that if I do not write and tell you that I will stop using the name 'Statler' in my advertising . . . you will make trouble for me. That will be an awful hard thing for you to do for several reasons, viz., as follows and to wit: there is a substantial mortgage on this place. I do not keep any checking account, holding my cash in my left and right pants pockets and keeping my accounts on a clear pine board which I burn on March 16, after having made a true and honest accounting...
...truculent document, devoted mostly to vilifying the Western powers for their plan to rearm Western Germany (". . . the aggressive bloc of the so-called Atlantic pact [is trying] to make [Germany] definitely a tool of their aggressive, war-strategic plans in Europe . . ."). Then, crying "peace and international security," the communiqué demanded a Big Four "proclamation" banning the remilitarization of Germany, a peace treaty to be followed by the withdrawal of occupation forces, a new "All-German Constitutional Council" uniting East and West Germany...
Selfish Interests. Germany and Japan . . . should be made into going concerns. If we have in fact adopted the policy of making peace with Germany and Japan, we should make that fact clear to our people and to the world, and we should focus on it-not drift but drive toward it-without wasting too much precious time "exploring possibilities" or fussing with "procedure difficulties." The urgency is great and the time is short...