Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Doesn't the mental picture of Paris plastered with wall-sized Coca-Cola signs, its kiosks enveloped in outsized bottle tops, make you shudder . . . ? Is there any reason why a Frenchman, who objects to seeing his own language bastardized (Buvez Coca-Cola) at every turn of a corner, should be accused of "smugness" . . .? Would we miss an opportunity to protest loudly if signs advising "Drink of Champagne French" suddenly appeared on our horizon...
Although the great McCarthy spy hunt had produced more headlines than facts, the headlines were big enough and black enough to give the Democratic Party the jitters. For one thing, there was always the awful prospect that McCarthy might turn up one case that he could make stick. If that one turned out to be anything like the case of Alger Hiss, one was all it would take...
...defeated, four members (three Republicans and one Democrat) asked to be allowed to switch their votes. "How much did you get?" someone yelled from the floor. The final count: 176 aye, 174 nay. Bob Kerr whistled off with his legislation, apparently confident that Harry Truman would sign it and make...
This frivolous dalliance with time was not confined to Strasbourg. Paris, London and Washington were all acting as if they had an indefinite period in which to make up their minds about Germany. Nobody faced this fact: if the Red army moved 200 miles from the Western end of Russia's zone of Germany to the French border, the Kremlin would have doubled its present industrial potential for supporting war. If, in terms of high-school algebra, it now takes x Western force to restrain Russia, it will take 2X Western force when the Russians have reached the Rhine...
...Then these three countries, helping each other, conscious of their future united greatness, forgetting ancient feuds and the horrible deeds and tragedies of the past, can make the core or the nucleus upon which all the other civilized democracies of Europe, bond or free, can one day rally and combine ... I see no reason why British, American, French and German soldiers should not stand in line together on honorable terms of comradeship . . . The grand design of Charlemagne must be re-adapted to modern conditions...