Word: makes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor health. Dr. Lawrence Hinkle of Cornell studied the health of 270,000 Bell System employees over a five-year period and found that executives suffered 43% fewer heart attacks than blue-collar workers. He concludes that a process of natural selection operates to ensure that the men who make it to the president's office are the strongest...
They must make it more rewarding for those who occupy it, and more attractive to those who should be working toward...
...cities where meager traffic will not support the costly big transports. And in many cases, the small carriers have made themselves essential. Rural Spencer, Iowa, found itself so isolated that town officials invited Minnesota's Fleet Airlines to provide regular service to larger cities and happily agreed to make up any losses...
...have him tossing, most of America, half of Europe, and all of Mexico would still be littered with far-flung typewriters." He invaded the lives of his many good friends the way his parents invaded his. The complex emotions of his life, "twisted with the love of things irreconcilable," make his brief career long in the telling...
...Rome just when a wholly Roman Britain seemed within grasp of the legions. Thereafter, year by year, the troops that had pressed nearly to the top of Scotland fell back under guerrilla attacks from the Britons. At last, in A.D. 119, Rome decided to stem the retreat and make the best of things by building a wall...