Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovered rusted rifles of every conceivable make, ammunition so old that only half of it would fire. Among the debris in one corner of the armory, he even found a long-forgotten coffin containing the body of the daughter of President Alexandre Petion (1808-18). But he also found old blue ceremonial uniforms in the army warehouses and soon fielded a band that gives rousing renditions of the Marines' Hymn, plus a passable version of the Haitian anthem. More important, Heinl's 40-man team taught the troops how to get from bunks to battle stations all over...
...something to do with psychological unity: Jesus saw children who were being suckled. He said to his disciples: These children who are being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom. They said to Him: Shall we then, being children, enter the Kingdom? Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one . . . then shall you enter the Kingdom...
...conjunction with a familiar biblical echo: The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days about the place of Life, and he will live.For many who are first shall become last and they shall be come a single one . . . When you make the two one, you shall become sons of Man, and when you say: "Mountain, be moved," it will be moved...
...Paraskovia Petrovna, who hales Father Dmitry before District Agitprop Director Kuchin and argues with him en route on behalf of edifying atheism. Director Kuchin is fed up with staging anti-God lectures ("Nobody comes but atheists"); he has his own sophisticated recipe for the conversion of Russia. "We must make it so that the last of the old ones believes no more in the omnipotent, but in us," he says. "And for this we mnst show what we can do. First, a piece of meat in the soup, good clothes for winter, then-radio, electricity, books, movies. Against this, Mister...
Gold Board. Young President Turbeville might have rushed back to Minnesota. A quiet South Carolinian, the son of a chemical salesman, he set out instead to make Northland work. First he expelled more than 40 sluggish students, some of them seniors. He ordered the faculty to crack down on marks, gave every student more work than he could handle. He established stiff entrance exams, rejected applicants below the top half of their high school classes. When stunned alumni asked how freshman-starved Northland could afford it, Salesman Turbeville hit the road...