Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...grumbling, "This is just garbage! What kind of propaganda is this? Who will believe it?" He found a Zenith shortwave radio that had been given to him in the 1950s by an American businessman and started to listen to Western Russian-language broadcasts. What he heard didn't exactly make him rejoice. Step by step, all his reforms were abolished...
...summer of 1967, when Father seemed almost completely forgotten, his name suddenly cropped up again. An American news network decided to make a biographical film about him. But the Soviet side interpreted it as a provocation, a hostile move. Brezhnev couldn't bear any mention of Khrushchev's name. People like him, who are soft and weak on the one hand and vain on the other, have a peculiar way of perceiving and "processing" their bad deeds. Having done something wrong, they project their guilt onto their victim, trying in this way to justify their actions to themselves...
Instead of abandoning his memoirs after the uproar over the TV film, Father redoubled his efforts. The authorities became aware of those efforts in the winter of 1967-1968. Brezhnev was greatly upset. How to make Father stop work on the project? Should they search his dacha and seize the tapes? That would trigger a scandal, leaving Brezhnev looking like a tyrant and Khrushchev a martyr. So what was to be done? The choice was to call Khrushchev in and persuade him to cease work on his memoirs and turn over what he had written to the Central Committee...
...make your statement with what you have. Crandall Addington, slim as a whip, whose year-round gamble is oil and gas exploration in South Texas, wears an elegant suit, a diamond stickpin, alligator boots, a neatly trimmed beard and a full-rigged Stetson. Tuna Lund, a huge fellow from Reno who got his nickname from an oceanic losing streak in Carson City, Nev. (a sure loser is a fish, and a tuna is a big fish), just sits at the table looking massive. He hasn't much choice; but if he's winning (which he is, just...
...organization, no matter how controversial or distasteful its views may be? I think not." Even Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, who concurred with the majority ruling, expressed serious reservations. In order to preserve the separation of church and state and counteract peer pressures, the pair insisted, schools must "make clear that their recognition of a religious club does not reflect their endorsement of the views of the club's participants...