Word: born
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This nation was born as the result of heated contention between loyalists and revolutionaries. The rise of the common people took place during the controversial presidency of Andrew Jackson. The end of slavery was brought about during the war between the states. The great Depression produced human progress unequaled until the divisive Johnson Administration...
...Attraction. A swarthy, self-effacing man, Rebozo was born in Tampa, Fla., of Cuban parents in 1912. He worked as a chauffeur, airline steward and gas-station operator after finishing high school. At the end of World War II, he went into the coin-laundry business, then a finance company, finally into real estate. He is now president of the Fisher Corp., a Florida development firm in which Nixon holds shares valued at $400,000-double the amount he initially invested...
André Malraux is a mysterious fellow -a natural-born actor who saved his histrionics for real life, a novelist who fashioned his books out of the materials of history and wrote himself into most of them in roles he actually played. So multi-chaptered is his life, in fact, and so intermixed is it with the events of his times that no adequate accounting could be contained within one book. Accordingly, when it was announced that Malraux would write the first volume in a projected autobiographical series, it was possible to wonder just which Malraux the author liked best...
...Neither a great runner nor a great passer but a born winner. He grows on you." -- Yale coach Carm Cozza...
...Brain Dowling's undefeated record (in games he has finished) since seventh grade or something. Carmen Cozza, the Yale coach, has said that Dowling is neither a great passer nor a great runner, he is just "a born winner." That is a disgusting prospect. We all know there is no such thing as a born winner or a born anything else. Winners are made and not born (like Wheaties) and to suppose that Dowling was born to win is strikingly un-American...