Word: makings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Acheson tried to give an answer of sorts at his weekly press conference. The U.S. did not recognize the Nationalist blockade, he said, because the Nationalists could not make it effective. But the State Department wished fervently that U.S. ships would quit trying to run the blockade. Acheson added that there was a difference between having a legal right and going to all possible lengths to enforce legal rights...
...changing of place at a hundred miles an hour . . . will make us one whit stronger, happier or wiser...
...Senator felt pretty good-humored about most of Europe and was willing to say so. "We have been very well received in all but one country," he announced. "I guess I started a furor in that one country. But I have no apologies to make." He added proudly: "We have been well received by royalty in Denmark and Sweden...
...effect of all this suggested a dangerous possibility: smog would soon be so valuable to the publicity men, radio gag writers and others who now make their living off jokes about Los Angeles' dry river bed and rare snowstorms, that support of antismog ordinances would be regarded as proof of disloyalty to the local way of life. After that it would be only a question of time before Los Angeles began boasting "Bigger Smogs than Pittsburgh" and movie stars took to wearing miners' lamps instead of dark glasses and sunshine was apologetically dismissed as "unusual weather...
...Senator Wayne Morse had long since decided, is that U.S. citizens are sometimes a little lazy when it comes to working at it-especially if the work involves going to a political meeting and asking a challenging candidate a few sharp questions. Last week Morse set out to make the process really easy. Seated in a little studio in station KERG in Eugene, he invited listening farmers and townspeople to pick up the phone and ask him a question. The questions came with a rush; it kept three people busy just taking the calls...