Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Hitler makes demands on Friend Stalin, there is little that Stalin can do but make the best bargain he can. Britain could give him no help against Germany. Yet it is Britain which has enabled Stalin to pursue his none too cooperative tactics so far-not by diplomatic pressure or concessions, but by keeping her fleet intact.In one of his occasionally brilliant analyses of the war, U. S. Pundit Walter Lippmann last week outlined his view of the relationship between British seapower and Comrade Molotov's visit...
...recognized Britain's rights to the Falklands, still insists they belong to Argentina and that the Falklands' slice of the Antarctic is also Argentine. As further evidence of ownership Argentina has maintained a meteorological observatory in the South Orkneys for 36 years, is the only nation to make good its claims by permanent occupation...
Thirteen centuries ago Mohammed gave a spiritual and material boost to his native Mecca by calling upon his followers to make a pilgrimage thither at least once in their lifetimes. Pious Moslems have been making the Haj ever since, thus gaining the privilege of: 1) being called Haji (pilgrim), 2) wearing green turbans, 3) dyeing their beards red with pounded hennaleaves...
From India, some 11,000 Mohammedans annually make the Haj. Last November India's Moslems sizzled when the Marquess of Linlithgow, India's Viceroy, announced that because every ship was needed for World War II, Hajis would have to wait for peace to make their pilgrimage. When the clamor continued, the Viceroy had to yield. This year Britain had learned her lesson. With the Axis driving for the Near East, British solicitude for India's Hajis seemed likely to last for the duration...
...idea for Fantasia had been germinating in Disney's mild-looking head for several years. Even before he did Snow White he had a vague notion of some day doing a serious opera in animovie style. As early as 1929 he raided the high-brow symphonic repertory to make Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre into a Silly Symphony. But the idea did not really sprout until early in 1938, when Leopold Stokowski, on a visit to Hollywood, begged Disney to let him conduct the music for The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a Mickey Mouse short...