Word: make
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...Gisborne and Dr. Schaefer selected a notorious cloud-breeding area in North Idaho . . . [and] had a plane ready to make the great experiment. But . . . the weather stubbornly refused to cooperate...
While White House aides sat around appalled, even Harry Truman decided that he had better do something. He prepared to do what no other President within memory has done: make a public apology for an egregious blunder.*The White House speech-writers were called in to carve out a statement...
...Just to make sure that there was no lingering misunderstanding, he appeared next day, hat in hand, at the Statler. Warned in time's nick that the President was coming, League Commandant Clay Nixon, of Seattle, had ordered: "No wisecracks will be tolerated . . . You will behave like marines." The convention's official bugler, 70-year-old Herbert Baldwin, tried to blow Hail to the Chief, but his upper dentures slipped out, so he just blew Attention. ("It was all I could do under the circumstances...
...succeeded in enticing me over here," Harry Truman grinned. "There are incidents sometimes that appear to be almost the end of the world when they happen, that usually turn out for the good of the cause . . . When I make a mistake I try to correct it. I try to make as few as possible...
...aging (74) Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley would head the Republican ticket. In such a situation New York's Democratic bosses had figured they could win the governorship with a nobody-particularly since they had gone to the trouble of arranging a mayoralty election in New York City to make sure of a big Democratic majority downstate.*Dewey's change of plans put the game onto a new table; New York had suddenly become a major political battleground...