Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lied." Hulking (6 ft. 4 in.), brown-mustached Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Murphy rose to make his opening statement as undramatically as if he were reading a directors' report. He spoke dispassionately: the case of the U.S. v. Alger Hiss was a simple one-just a matter of two counts of perjury before a grand jury...
...unit Negro housing development on land adjacent to a white section. "We talk of doing things to house the Negroes," argued one of Cothrum's supporters, "but I don't blame them for looking at us with distrust in their eyes...of course we have to make sacrifices." The city of Jackson, Miss. opened a new $500,000 park for Negroes, then voted a $350,000 bond issue to build a civic auditorium in the park...
Around the square, the loafers settled back and talked it over: "He was a bad nigger, all bad." Picky Pie had worked in the chalk mines, but mostly he bootlegged liquor. He had been arrested several times before, once for shooting at a white boy just to make him jump. They snorted at the reports that he supported his crippled father and three sisters besides his wife and three children...
...Laguerre: "If any agreement comes out of this conference, it will only reflect the realities of the present position; it will not create new realities. The fact is that in Europe the West is stronger than Russia. Either the Russians, who are usually realists, will accept that fact and make a deal favorable to the West, or they will refuse to accept it, and keep on fighting the cold war, in which case they ought to get progressively weaker in Europe...
Against that background the OEEC group met last week in Paris. Their assignment was to renew or to change the Intra-European Payments agreement, which runs out this month. Britain's objective was to make the new plan as much like the old as possible. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak and French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche were expected to carry the ball for the liberal Harriman position...