Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...useful than ever. At his first Kremlin reception last week Macmillan told the assembled Soviet bigwigs: "It is impossible to hide from ourselves the dangers of war by miscalculation or muddle. That indeed would be a calamity to us all." In his restrained British way, Macmillan was seeking to make it unmistakably plain to Khrushchev that he was playing with dynamite; if Macmillan achieves nothing else, he is determined to convince the Soviet that the West will fight before it will surrender Berlin to a Russian-dominated East Germany...
...banned), economic strains were being felt. Syrian foreign exchange holdings had shrunk in half in the merger's first year. Nasser's determination to force Syria's free-enterprise economy into Egypt's state socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser himself seemed still to be the most popular man in the country. To make the new republic's first...
...called to protest the decision of the Belgian National Coal Board to close down eight of 13 Borinage mines and to limit production in the remaining five to 8,000 tons daily. Yet the decision has long been inevitable and was postponed only because successive governments feared to make...
...Rahman's reasoning: he has ruled for the past four years through an alliance of three parties that have grown flabby for want of opposition. (Even the Communist guerrillas in the Malayan jungles are down to an official 347.) With federation-wide elections due this summer, Rahman is making a strategic withdrawal in order to stump the villages and make doubly sure that his own party (the United Malays' National Organization) as well as himself emerges safely...
...revolution. Senorita Pastora NúÑez, director of National Savings and Housing Institute (formerly the government lottery), called in the casino owners and found them willing to meet her requirement of seven weeks' back pay for all employees. "I highly disapprove of the way you make a living," she lectured, "but we are reconsidering our earlier decision...