Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer contends that she acquired Portuguese citizenship when she married d'Aquino and that U.S. treason laws are not applicable to her. He also contends that the "poor kid" was only a disc jockey, and "all she did was make simple introductions to the music." The Government, the prosecutor declared, would not seek the death penalty...
...show; a third said that he got his pants wet from dew on weeds outside the refinery. Protesting that the union was pulling an illegal version of the sit-down strike, Crown Petroleum closed down the entire refinery for safety reasons. Later, the company offered to resume operations and make some concessions to the union. The workers decided to grieve a while longer before letting the management know...
When Lenin died in 1924, so many Russians filed past his bier that a Soviet leader asked: "Could we not make a semi-permanent thing of it?" Professors Boris Zbarsky and Vladimir Vorobyev went to work, and after four months announced they had found a method that would preserve Lenin's body intact indefinitely...
...might. India's decision does not balance the loss of China, but it does point the way to a constructive relationship between the Western and the Asian democracies. Some immediate tasks of an anti-Communist democratic grouping would be: retrieving Burma from its present chaos; helping the Indonesians make a go of independence; stopping the economic and political "slide" in the Philippines...
...chrestomathy (i.e., selection of passages-chrestos, useful; mathein, to learn). Even now, when many of the earlier heresies of the Sage of Baltimore have faded to archaic jeerings, he still has the power to annoy and sometimes to infuriate. With it he also has the talent to make a reader admire the technique of the Mencken flaying process even as his sympathy goes out to the victim...