Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emotions," says Abstractionist Josef Albers, "are usually prejudices. When peo ple say my paintings have no emotion I say, O.K., precision can make you crazy too. A locomotive is without emotion - so is a mathematics book - but they are exciting...
What worries Kelemen more than Mindszenty's guilt is the fear that the Communists will take his land and make it part of a kolkhoz (collective farm). He is not sure what a kolkhoz is, but, he said: "Whatever it is, it is nobody's business to tell me what to do with my land. I know best how the manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take...
...first daylight, young Mayor Theophilou was seized at home, dragged and kicked through the streets to Truman Square, backed up against a white marble monument. Said a rebel capitanos: "You've had a lot of experience lately making speeches to your American friends. Why not make one for us?" Theophilou straightened and started to answer: "I am mayor of this town and-" A spatter of bullets from rebel Tommy guns cut him off. For three days his body stayed there, propped against the bloodstained marble. Thus the lesson began...
...President Romulo Betancourt leave Caracas' Colombian embassy, where he had been since the coup. Replied the junta: 1) Betancourt had just been given a safe-conduct, and Chile knew it; 2) Chile had been guilty of an "unfriendly act" in even mentioning the subject. To make it stronger, the junta called its ambassador home from Santiago...
While tearing off a game of golf, I may make a play for the caddy; But when I do, I don't follow through, 'Cause my heart belongs to Daddy...