Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of natural and man-made catastrophes which may at some time be encountered ... If we look ahead five or ten years we must consider the possibility of encountering atomic blast. This possibility may for some places be so small that it can be neglected. We should make every effort to add atomic facts of life-subtle and obvious, pleasant and unpleasant-to our folklore. [But] an attempt to provide complete (necessarily underground) protection against atomic attack at close range would cost so much, and would interfere so greatly with what we have come to regard as normal living, that...
...stoic admiral added: "There is nothing unusual about such a compromise with fate. We make these decisions each time we ride in a taxicab or go skating or skiing...
...economic clouds just overhead had parted, but those on Britain's horizon were as threatening as ever. Last week the London Economist had some cogent points to make about taxation and the future of the welfare state...
...replaced out of "a fund of public savings." When new machines or other capital goods are needed in the U.S., they are normally paid for by the investment of the savings of those private individuals who have more than they require to support life. In general, these individuals make up "the middle class...
Where the road widens slightly to make Akir's village square, Jewish children romped around a gnarled sycamore tree last week, playing a popular game, the local version of cowboys & Indians; it is called "Jews & Arabs." Watching them was an elderly Bulgarian Jew who was selling small balloons from a folding table. Fifty yards away was the two-story stone building where, in old days, Arab fellahin used to sit gossiping over Turkish coffee. Part of one wall of the Arab cafe lay in rubble. The cafe had been hit by an Israeli shell. On the undamaged section...