Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This week the National Security Council will make its command decision, and submit it to President Truman...
Meanwhile, Dean Acheson had his message, too, and it also sprayed balm in the general direction of the Communist scalp. The Government is trying in all its words & deeds to make its peaceful intentions toward China clear to the Communist leaders, he told reporters. President Truman has said so, declared Acheson, and we are making it clear through the Voice of America and otherwise...
...back toward the 19th Century, Mark missed Roosevelt; he was only seven when a golden age of U.S. liberalism ended (for him) in 1933. But he was 17 when he first saw Wilson, and was soon as fervent a disciple as any other liberal of his years. To make a living, Mark had to sacrifice progressive principles for profiteer practice. He suffered liberally, but lived royally by his ability to second-guess the stock market. He also discovered that helping people didn't pay. For trying to save a ship which went down, he got only abuse...
...length of Crete, while the furious Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive and captors, Moss and Leigh-Fermor knew that they had achieved their principal aim-to astound the enemy and make him the laughingstock of the local population...
...Novelist Pearl Buck's effort to make a life for her mentally retarded child (TIME, July...