Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Greenwich Village's Washington Square, the handsome Georgian houses built by Real Estate Magnate William C. Rhinelander in the 1830s were coming down to make way for a new apartment house. Over near the East River, acres of slums had fallen before the grim, brick-cliffed ranks of Stuyvesant Town and its corollary projects. Along Central Park, new apartment houses were rising, and ornate brownstones were falling...
Last June, spry old (70) James F. Byrnes emerged from retirement to make a pronouncement: "We are going down the road to statism," he warned. He added a few remarks that indicated unmistakably that the Southern states'-rights insurrectionists had found their most respectable spokesman...
...ensuing months, Jimmy Byrnes kept talking and supporters kept coming, thicker than bullbats around the chimneys of his Spartanburg home on a summer evening. They thought he ought to run for governor. In October, Jimmy Byrnes issued a firmly equivocal statement: "If I conclude that as governor I could make a contribution ... I will be a candidate. If I do not so conclude, I will not be a candidate." There was another question, he added: "Whether one, as governor, could secure the cooperation of other governors in arousing the people of the nation to hold the line,.against further encroachment...
...fire. It didn't-at least not before the spectators had to run out. And after that the barn burned down. ¶Mrs. Janice Pollock, who was chosen as Mrs. America of 1946 but turned down the honor (and a chance to make $2,500) to stay home with her husband, filed suit for divorce...
Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the croquet-balls were live hedgehogs, and the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and stand on their hands and feet to make the arches...