Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Could make stones creep like ivy stems...
...slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile-long warehouses piled high with C-rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into a 10-lb. tin of corned beef with the delicate disdain of an overweight debutante at a smörgasbord...
...from the friendly Koreans and saw them marching in the direction of the railroad bridge. He jumped in a jeep, swung himself behind a 30-caliber machine gun and drove up to stop them. Meanwhile, the reconnaissance platoon went off for one last swing through the town to make sure all the U.N. troops were out. When the colonel finally was forced to dismount and turn them back at carbine point, the Koreans seemed hurt and puzzled...
...asked Mosa Pijade, the tiny, hunched intellectual who presides over the party's long-range thinking about this chronic indirection and indecision. He began with the standard visionary explanation: "Now you see only the difficulties and restrictions. We have no results yet, but we make big things, hydroelectric plants, steel mills. These take time, much work, manpower, but when the day comes when we can produce, then you shall see." Then he introduced a twist: "When we made the first five-year plan, we were full of ideas we had received and accepted from the U.S.S.R. without any criticism...
Such a speedup, the New York regents pointed out, would make it possible for many a student to squeeze in at least a year of college before induction. The regents were not asking New York schools to adopt their suggestion until Washington settles on an over-all national service plan. But when Washington does, the regents thought, accelerated high-school courses would become "a patriotic duty...