Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said determined hero-maker Lake: "I still think McGee got a bum rap, and I'd handle the story the same way if I had to do it over again...
Thus the harness maker's son from Iowa, who had risen to a position more powerful than many kings's, bowed out. His friends said he would write his memoirs, if his health permitted. He would have much to tell about: the Hundred Days of the New Deal honeymoon, the fractious days of WPA, the vindictive days of the 1938 purge, the bustling days after Pearl Harbor, and the days of high-policy travel when Casablanca, Cairo, Teheran, Quebec and Yalta became places of international decision...
Labor Party leaders tore their hair. Herbert Morrison, Labor Party policy maker, denied that his Party would ever use violence. Cried Labor Party newspapers: "Another Zinoviev letter...
...Bless the Corporal. "Between all this work and discussion, I can assure you my sins and omissions loomed very large. They only had the effect of making me sure I was in no position to meet my Maker. My prayers were most earnest. I asked Corporal Dorfman (this was his first flight) whether he was saying his prayers and he said he had been praying for two hours. He asked me to write something on his khaki trousers. We had written on all our trousers phone instructions to follow when we landed, and I wrote the only thing that came...
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), Dutch shopkeeper, amateur naturalist, microscope maker, the first human being to see microbes...