Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Currently China's people are being exhorted by song ("Manure Sources Are Plentiful") and slogan ("Make manure by soaking and smoking") to accumulate 10 billion tons of fertilizer. But so many Chinese are tied up on other "shock programs" that despite China's 600 million-man labor force there is a shortage of manure collectors; to find hands for the task, Hopei province has been obliged to abandon eight out of twelve high-priority irrigation projects planned for this year...
...much as he once disliked Quadros, Lacerda dislikes President Juscelino Ku-bitschek and his Social Democratic Party (P.S.D.) more. When he learned that U.D.N. President Juracy Magalhaes was negotiating an alliance with Kubitschek's P.S.D. that would make Magalhaes President in 1960, Lacerda conferred with Quadros, bannerlined the news in his Tribuna da Imprensa: JANIO...
...homey recollections of last fall's U.S. trip. Sample: when the Queen asked to see the launching of a moon rocket she was told that the request posed difficulties because future visitors might use it as a precedent. "Why don't you," suggested Frederika helpfully, "make a rule that only queens and upwards...
...Frustrated? Zsa Zsa has ideas about the book: "I know practically everyone in the whole world," she says in her rich Hungarian accent, which is as hard to render in print as Eliza Doolittle's cockney. "I want to make it clear that I'm not just the dumb blonde who wisecracks...
...Heavy favorites failed to make the grade in two of the winter's richest horse races. In the $145,000 Santa Anita Handicap, C. W. Smith's Hillsdale (at 4 to 5 odds) was overtaken by Terrang in the last hundred yards, lost by half a length. In the $135,800 Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah, Christopher T. Chenery's flashy three-year-old, First Landing (17 to 20), was never a serious factor, finished third behind Bayard Sharp's Troilus...