Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inauguration as Puerto Rico's first elected governor. With his handsome wife and two dark-eyed daughters, he went to the Hotel Plaza, where he had no sooner checked in than he headed for the kitchen. "New York kitchens," he explained, "are always full of Puerto Ricans. They make the salads, cut the meat, wash the dishes." The Plaza's kitchen help were appropriately enthusiastic; several elderly women fell on Muñoz' neck and wept...
When reporters asked about the purpose of his visit, Muñoz fingered his greying mustache and replied: "Oh, it's just to make friends and influence people." Washingtonians who met him agreed that he had accomplished...
...Alaska, a small private plane settled down on its landing skis and slid to a stop. A few minutes later, after strapping on some snowshoes, Pilot Terris Moore set out for the last nine miles of his journey on foot. He had come all the way from Boston to make his round of visits; before accepting the presidency of the University of Alaska, he had decided that he should call on each of the regents to talk things over...
...student at Williams College, Terris Moore dreamed of climbing Mt. Everest. That dream never came true, but he did make the first ascent of Alaska's Mt. Bona (16,420 ft.) and was a member of the only party to reach the top of China's Mt. Minya Konka...
...arrived in the U.S. with $4 in pocket and a concert contract in hand. Father Wasner came along as the family chaplain, by special dispensation of his bishop. "How I hated this country at first," Mrs. Trapp says. "Oblong envelopes and mayonnaise on pears!" But the family was soon making $1,000 a concert, and she thought better of the country. "It's so big," she exclaims, "and I love to make long-distance calls!" All the Trapps are now U.S. citizens, have dropped their titles...