Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schools supported by public taxes, she wrote, should be completely free of any private or religious control. She did not deny the contributions that "Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist or whatever" schools might make to the community. But if a U.S. citizen wanted his children to have special denominational training, then he should pay for it and not expect the Government to. "The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us," she concluded...
...never a particularly distinguished jurist; it was not his game. But he did make his voice heard in defense of civil liberties-in which he included the right of Jehovah's Witnesses even to blaspheme his own Catholic Church. He protested the court-martial of the Japanese General Homma, who ordered the Bataan death march, as no trial at all but a "revengeful blood purge." Gradually he withdrew from social life. His heart had never been quite equal to his spiritual drive, nor was it equal to the exacting, wearing work of the court. His Bible...
Detectives, sheriffs and special investigators swarmed in to ask him questions. Mickey was impatient. "They want me to sit here and lie-just to make it look like they're getting somewhere. Well, I don't lie. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I lead a real pure life...
Obsessed with his ideal, Abetz convinced himself that the "reasonable and peaceful elements" in Naziism would help him realize it. Eagerly, he went back to Paris. This time he had 350,000 francs a month expense money from the Nazis. He used it to subsidize pro-German writers, to make himself the intimate acquaintance of powerful French politicians and industrialists. He paved the way for Munich and the failure of French arms...
...Democracy Has Triumphed." Early in the morning, the government decided to make a deal. At President Arevalo's request, the Papal Nuncio and the ambassadors of El Salvador and Argentina asked for a truce and offered the rebels generous terms, including amnesty and a government reorganization. Running low on ammunition, the rebels agreed...