Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...great T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, have excelled through two world wars- the crisp, lively, unimpassioned military-diplomatic memoir. Moreover, Escape to Adventure has a highly topical fascination in that it reflects the destiny of today's would-be lone ranger: try as he may to make his adventurous career a personal affair, he is pretty likely to wind up half lost in a huge crowd, becoming (in the words of one of Maclean's sergeants) just another of the " - ing cogs in this gigantic - organization...
Time has since answered this question -about the only one left open in a book whose quiet but vigorous decisiveness helps to make it one of the most readable and instructive memoirs of World...
...pleased with himself. Of one crisp, logical note which he wrote to Japan's Foreign Minister Matsuoka he says: "I was rather pleased with this when I wrote it. and I don't mind the look of it now." And he is never so enmeshed in the making of history as to lose his sense of humor. Because of F.D.R.'s success in getting Moscow to underwrite religious freedom in the United Nations Pact, "I promised Mr. Roosevelt to recommend him for the position of Archbishop of Canterbury if he should lose the next Presidential election...
...first fifteen lost to Princeton in Bermuda by a lop-sided 13 to 0 score, but since its return from Bermuda it has been bolstered by the addition of seven players who could not make the trip. With this improved team, the ruggers have gained three straight victories...
...equipped to deal with "limited aggression"; it "may weaken the morale and confidence of our European allies"; it is an "indication that American military strategy accepts the principle of mass destruction of human life"; it has made harder any "agreement restricting the use of atomic weapons"; and it may make the use of atomic weapons inevitable in any future...