Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Jesuit Horvath broke in: "How can you make such an offer? And how can you expect monks to teach against their principles, from Communist textbooks?" Answered Rakosi: "I made you an offer. Take it or leave it. If you leave it, you openly admit you refuse to educate Hungarian youth, the right to which you demand...
Spokesman for the group was 33-year-old Dairyman Hubert Mendenhall of Fairhope, Ala. Said he: "Our economy has become so involved with military effort throughout the world that a person can hardly make a living without being a part of that system . . . Even the price of milk depends upon...
...disbanded its army in 1949. In their new land, picked after a survey of Latin American farm areas, they plan to raise livestock and coffee. Said Mendenhall: "The sense of values in this country is becoming more materialistic all the time . . . In Costa Rica we can only hope to make a modest living, but it will not be so directly tied in with the military economy...
Zadkine's father was a riverboat builder in the Russian city of Smolensk, and the sculptor's ambition has always been to make his works "as beautiful and perfect as a well-built boat." That simile would never have occurred to classical sculptors, who took the human body as their measure of perfection. It partly explained the mixture of respect for his materials, trim severity and bargelike bluntness in Zadkine...
...certainly hard to understand why a convinced non-Communist should make it a matter of absolute and ultimate principle to refuse to affirm he is not a member of the Communist party-needless as the affirmation...