Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measure of America's task. The little man -and millions like him-wanted to know what he might bow to now. Emperor MacArthur? The American flag? If democracy was the faith of the men who had beaten Japan, it was probably a good thing; he would make obeisance...
...burbled: "With the victory of the Chinese Communists, half the world's people are now Communist. Communism is the future. Japan must trade with the rest of Asia to survive, and all the rest of Asia is rapidly going Communist. Trust us ... We will reconstruct Japan and make it bright and happy...
Like those who know where to lay hands on Ambrose Bierce, Charley Ross or Judge Crater, there are people who turn up at irregular intervals with grandiose and intricate claims to large chunks of the U.S. Lawyers make money out of these things, and everybody else laughs. On the stage of Madrid's Teatro Martin one night recently, everybody laughed at "Lepe," Spain's favorite clown...
...reward for 40 years of stainless service at sea, Captain Douglas R. V. Lee was given command of the $12 million Royal Mail liner Magdalena. A silent, broad-shouldered man of 59, Captain Lee planned to make two voyages in his spanking new 17,500-ton ship, then retire. After that, said his wife: "My business will be him, and his business...
...campus at Baton Rouge. He wanted Louisianans to understand that the university was for education and not "an instrumentality of government." Nor was the university a playground. "Give a student a convertible and a textbook," he said, "and you cannot expect them to compete on even terms." To make sure the books won out, he reduced campus pleasure driving during school hours, restricted student phone calls in the evening, kept classrooms open all day, instead of the half-day L.S.U. had been used...