Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...counsel to anyone who needed it. "A woman 'ud call about 'er rent," Griffiths recalls. "She 'adn't any money, see? 'Pull up ter th' fire, mother,' the Major 'ud say (they still call 'im Major down Limehouse way). 'Make a pot of tea, Griff, and get a piece of cake. Now you stop crying, mother, and we'll soon get things settled.' " Such is Limehouse's loyalty to Clement Attlee that even today the patrons of the Castle pub along Commercial Road will...
...average Briton is likely to assume that the government at the wheel must be to blame for these recurring jolts. But then his memory of each jolt tends to fade quickly as soon as the road gets smoother. The task of the Conservatives in this election is to make vivid recall of these crises to show, if they can, that they were blunders characteristic of Labor's rule...
Britain's Geoffrey Gorer, critic extraordinary of Africa, Japan, Russia and the U.S., has turned suddenly timid before his own country. In "Some Notes on the British Character" for the final issue of Horizon (TIME, Nov. 28), Gorer first disqualifies himself as an expert ("I cannot make such an analysis; it demands a degree of detachment which I can only achieve spasmodically and for very short periods"), then reaches some tentative conclusions. His most novel notion is that the British...
Fair Deal. Only 100% Peronista newspapers are safe from zealous Deputy Visca and the congressional committee of investigation that he directs. The lesson that even friends in high places cannot make up for any deviation from government doctrine was sharply illustrated last week in the case of José W. Agusti, 56, newspaper owner, millionaire and until lately a friend...
...been paralyzed in both legs for six months or more. One day she became feverish and lapsed into a coma. Three days later she stiffened and turned cold; then the wake began. One ancient Haitian custom was omitted: no hill-country witch doctor poisoned her or stabbed her to make sure that she would never become a zombi...