Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Dewey and Republican leaders had already agreed on whom they wanted as Tom Dewey's successor in Albany: ruddy-cheeked, back-slapping 74-year-old Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, onetime jockey, Presbyterian minister, lawyer and silver-tongued speaker on the Chautauqua circuit. In case any Democrats wanted to make something of Hanley's age, Dewey said pointedly, let them remember that their own Senator, Herbert Lehman, up for reelection, was 72. Dewey's ten-word withdrawal shocked...
...Yorkers into realizing they were about to lose a first-rate governor. As the only presidential candidate the Republicans have ever renominated after his failure to make it the first time, Dewey had missed the White House; he had been too assured, his personality did not charm the voters, and he had tried to win without discussing the issues. But when all of this was said, his had been a remarkable career: a racket-busting prosecutor at 33 who put behind bars "Lucky" Luciano, Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler, Tammany's Jimmy Hines, .Wall Street's Richard Whitney...
...Hartley's thrifty German citizens just didn't like it. They knew it was only make-believe but it kind of scared them anyway. "They know Communism is bad," explained a town official. "They feel that when you play around with something that is bad, somebody's going to get hurt." Some remembered that when Mosinee, Wis. had a Communist Day, the mayor had suffered a fatal heart attack. Then the program said that houses would be searched. "They won't have no pants if they come to our place," said one housewife...
...Britain's income tax, Sherriff reckoned that he would have only $1,400 of his earnings left (TIME, March 27). Last week another British writer announced his intention to strike against the exorbitant tax rates. From his latest book Legacy, Novelist Nevil Shute (Pastoral, Chequer Board) expects to make about ?18,000 ($50,400), but after paying British taxes he will be able to keep only about ?3,000. To save a smitch of his earnings on Legacy and future books, Novelist Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway) concluded he simply would have to get out of Britain...
...visitor [to understand that] when he enters the office of a business associate the desk in the corner is empty because the secretary who occupied it was arrested last week, or that the girl at the opposite desk is the police spy who denounced her, and who will shortly make a report to the police on the visitor's conversation with the manager...