Word: makes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bright. Homer would not be moved. "This year I'm going to make it ten times bigger than ever before," he announced defiantly. "I'm going to add angels in fluorescent lights." There would also be 13 more sheep, another dog and shepherd and 1,500 more lights. Blizzards of mail came from supporters, urging him to be steadfast...
...Yant and many another were getting rich. Yant was also insisting, to whoever would listen, that the oil find "vindicated" him. "Some people think I'm a scoundrel and some think I'm a wonderful guy-depending on whether they made or didn't make money out here," he said. "But do you know what? I don't give a damn. I'm gonna eat for the rest of my life, I'll tell you that...
Time for Remembrance. Next morning Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew off from Chengtu. His plane bypassed Kunming, capital of Yunnan. There only a few weeks ago the Nationalists had hoped to make their last stand. But to land last week would have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...
...novel," said one of the judges in an interview, "is twisted to eroticism. For instance, in Le Jeu et I'Enjeu [a recent French literary success] there is a revolting story. Two rats-you heard me -two rats fall upon a bed where two people are preparing to make bought love. I find that most symbolic of current literature...
...High Commissioner was instructed to make sparing use of his veto powers over German legislation, to intervene as little as possible in German internal affairs...