Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloth, where is our food, where is our fuel? I urged them to plant trees for fuel. They pointed to a distant glow on the horizon. The glow was caused by fires where the zamindars [landlords] were destroying forests in order to lease out more land and make a few more rupees...
Election day was warm and sunny. Near polling booths in bars and cafes beer flowed as on a special holiday. High on the Zugspitze vacationers took time to vote, and from Baltic beaches bathers ambled inland to cast their ballots. "It does not really make much difference who wins," said a German in Marburg, "as long as there is a big turnout...
...budge a rock-ribbed Southern bloc in the N.M.A., which saw a chance to strike a blow for equality. Outgoing President C. Austin Whittier of San Antonio threw out the challenge: "I recommend that we take a firm stand in support of President Truman's health program . . . and make available necessary funds for effective support." That was a bargaining position...
...assault: "If you support a stand against the Truman proposals, you will get a pat on the back from the A.M.A. But you will gain the condemnation of ten million Negroes . . . for denying to many of our people medical opportunities ... It would be wise to create an issue to make the A.M.A. come to you, man to man, rather than to ignore you because you pulled...
Everybody in the room knew what Acheson was talking about. The week before, at a press conference on the China white paper (TIME, Aug. 15), the Secretary had been as short-tempered as a snapping turtle, and he had snapped at reporters who were cautiously double-checking to make sure they had their facts straight...