Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...when Bradley was head of the Veterans Administration. Said TIME: "There is a quality of greatness about 53-year-old Omar Bradley-in his plain face and sense of humanity. Once, musing on a soldier's life, he observed that he had spent 30 years training himself to make decisions which would cost human lives. 'You don't sleep any too well from it,' he said quietly. Now the General's job is patching up shattered lives . . . The hazards and responsibilities of this peacetime assignment, in some respects, are greater than any he ever...
...House Without Utility. This might all be understandable, or at least explainable. A little harder to understand was how the variation between $18 billion and $14.3 billion could make so much difference-the difference, perhaps, between the prompt nabbing of an international felon in Mr. Truman's police action and what was actually happening. The money finally budgeted for national defense was no niggling sum; it was one-third of the national budget...
...been Governor Thurmond," said the deep voice, "I would never have appointed the Nigger physician of Charleston, Dr. T. C. McFall, to displace your beloved white physician [on the Medical Advisory Board]." At that point, sounds of dissent rose from 400 Negroes in the bleachers. Johnston bellowed: "Make those Niggers keep quiet...
Even the Kingfish's hunched-shoulder, open-palmed gestures came easy, and he was just as natural about wrapping a friendly arm around a farmer and calling him by his first name. But one thing was different: Russell was not promising to make every man a king; he was sticking to the respectful, respectable demeanor which had surprised Washington during his first two years in his father's old Senate seat...
...demagogue is over," said he. "I have no apologies to make for being the son of Huey Long or the nephew of Earl Long. They have both helped the people of our state...