Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...There's a ditch on the other side of the wall," said Jaskilka. "Roll over the wall into the ditch, then get up fast and make for the right side of the beach. Good luck...
...Terribly Regrettable." Shocked and humiliated, Louis Johnson wrote his resignation: "It was inevitable, in the conscientious performance of my duties as Secretary of Defense, that I would make more enemies than friends." With Harry Truman's consent, Johnson drew to the President's "thoughtful attention" the name of a man whose very stature would promote harmony: George Marshall...
...Which would make her the nation's third woman governor. The first two: Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, governor of Wyoming (1925-27), now director of the U.S. Mint; Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, governor of Texas...
...clear that within Inchon Bay the U.N. assault craft would be sitting ducks, held in a narrow channel with no room to move about or dodge attack. Larger craft would have to lay out some seven miles. LCVPs and LCMs would need 90 minutes to make the run from mother ships to beach with troops and equipment...
...decision in an imperial conference on Sept. 6, 1941: war against the U.S. unless the U.S. backed down on China by early October. The proposal of the supreme command was blunt and final; Hirohito's civilian ministers accepted it. Apparently only Hirohito himself felt called upon to make any further observations. He pulled out a poem that had been written by his grandfather, the Emperor Meiji, and read it aloud...