Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab technicians who gathered in Cairo would have to be taken more and more into account as the years go by, but at the moment they are in no position to make everyone else jump to their tune...
...Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria." Natal landowners also began importing Indian "coolies" to work their languishing sugar plantations. In four years Natal's sugar exports multiplied 33 times. The indentured Indians became settlers in their own right, and other immigrants-the "free" or "passenger" Indians-flocked to make a new life for themselves in the new land. In 1897, aged 28, young Mohandas Gandhi was stoned by Durban white settlers and came close to being hanged from a lamppost...
...Never give camellias; the heads fall off," cautions an official pamphlet issued to Tokyo's 23,000 policemen last week. "And never give sick people potted plants; their connotation of being rooted may make recipient think you expect him to be sick a long time...
...pick up your napkin until others do, and try to make as little noise as possible when eating...
...curtain. A key to Director Polikoff s program is a postconcert forum in which the audience is invited to fire questions at the composers. In preceding concerts, audiences have pulled no punches: "What does it mean?" "Why doesn't it have any melody?" "Do you have to make it sound so complicated?" From the blunt questions, Polikoff hopes everybody learns something. Last week's haymaker: "With whom are you trying to communicate?" Replied fiercely complex Composer Sessions: "With anyone who will listen. All the composer asks is a willing...