Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alcorn knew what to do. Said he: "Mr. President, I strongly suggest you make a speech on Labor Day in which you recall the Congress and promise to keep the Congress in session until adequate labor-reform legislation is passed. The country wants it; the rank and file of labor wants it. It will help the country. And it certainly will help our party...
...Nixon. Nixon was enthusiastic. Rockefeller also approved, although Morton, who could swing considerable influence one way or the other in the 1960 convention, stated publicly last January: "Some people like Nelson Rockefeller. But I've been for Nixon for a long time, and nothing has happened to make me change my mind...
...willing tool of the Communists, the court stages televised nightly trials of "enemies of the regime," i.e., enemies of the Communist Party. Mahdawi is a suety, quick-witted ruffian-"Egypt has always had bad rulers. Cleopatra was a whore"-who holds court to extract confessions rather than dispense justice. Making up his own rules, treating the accused as already convicted, interrupting to make long and wildly irrelevant speeches, Mahdawi, with his four fellow judges, has already sentenced to death dozens of victims, including two former Premiers of Iraq...
...only policy open to the West. For even if Washington and London trusted Nasser enough to back him in his fight against Kassem, Western support would only further discredit Nasser in Iraqi eyes-and in the eyes of the whole Arab world. And any attempt that the West might make to bring direct pressure to bear on Kassem could only serve to drive him finally and utterly into the arms of the Communists...
...hastily created people's communes, which showed signs of developing into self-contained economic empires. Some communes, "regardless of the state plan," refused to surrender any of their harvest for distribution in the cities. Complained Finance Vice Minister Wu Po: "There are even communes that make no distinction between their own property and that of the state. They freely use state materials stored in warehouses, eat state grain as they like, and take things from stockpiles without bothering to render receipts...