Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the extension agreement had been signed in New York, Southern dock hands refused to go along because, they said, employers in South Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports had refused to make any future pay increases retroactive, as the Yankee shippers had agreed to do. From the Gulf, the strike spread swiftly north, and from the way the opposing sides talked, there seemed slight chance of quick settlement...
Today Red China's economy gasps and shudders like an abused donkey engine. The "great leap forward" that was to make China a major industrial power in the twinkling of an eye has instead produced something close to chaos. In the ant-heap rural communes that were to convert 500 million peasants into depersonalized, multi-purpose labor units, there is apathy and despair...
...border between underpopulated Siberia and jampacked China. Khrushchev's pouring of more than 1,000,000 young Russians into the lands beyond the Urals is almost certainly designed in part to populate the empty reaches of Siberia before Red China grows much moire powerful. Nor does the Kremlin make much effort to disguise the fact that it would be happier to see China expand toward Southeast Asia than toward the north...
...some truth that they were the builders of Britain's current boom. But against that. Labor could appeal to the deep-rooted British feeling that no party should be kept in office too long. As election day approached, most of Britain's political experts cagily refused to make predictions and many of London's "turf accountants," i.e., bookies, were refusing to handle election bets. At week's end those who would were offering odds of 5-to-3 against Labor...
...danger was that France might take Abbas' words at face value. In fact, much of what he said was clearly designed to establish a bargaining position, and some of it was equally clearly intended as window dressing to make the idea of a possible cease-fire palatable to extremist anti-French forces within the rebel ranks. The essential point was that for the first time since the fighting began the rebels had tacitly agreed to abide by the verdict of a peaceful Algerian referendum...