Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tactical Air Command, pioneered the high-mobility, nuclear-tipped, composite air-strike forces that got their showdown test when they were flown to support U.S. diplomacy in Lebanon and Quemoy (TIME, July 28, 1958 et seq.). Said he: "TAC never has had priority, like SAC. TAG had to make do with what it could get, and by God, we have...
Land Reform. One reason Quinn ran so well in the outlying islands is that he managed to make a popular campaign issue out of a problem that of all others is peculiarly and basically Hawaiian: the land shortage...
With the bulk of the 17,000 delegates coming from the Soviet bloc-many having their first look outside the Iron Curtain-the festival organizers did their best to make them feel that they had never left home. The Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian and Rumanian delegates were quartered in tent cities five miles from Vienna, closely guarded by other "delegates," and whisked back and forth each day in buses, some of them with Moscow license plates...
...squalid Parliament," he said, and proceeded to tick off as Colonial Office accomplishments the -independence of Ghana and the Malayan Federation, the coming independence of Nigeria and the West Indies. Coolly eyeing Bevan, Lennox-Boyd said he was prepared to match this against any record Parliament might make in the future, "if ever, which is most unlikely, the desiccated calculating machine on his right [Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell] formed an administration...
...they had under the collective farms, paid largely in kind rather than cash and denied extra pay for extra effort, many peasants saw no incentive to work. "The well-to-do middle peasants." admits Peking's Journal of Humanity, "said, 'Now that everything is communal, let us make believe we have lost our property in gambling...