Word: makin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet, palm-edged cemetery at Guadalcanal went the bodies of soldiers, sailors and marines once buried in the Russells, Espiritu Santo and Tulagi. Men who died as prisoners in scattered, Jap-held islets of the Marshalls, soldiers who fell at Makin, marines who died to take Roi and Namur will be moved to the cemetery on Ennylabegan, in the south of Kwajalein Atoll...
Bubbling with happiness, Norwegian Labor's Lie joined Belgian Labor's Spaak and Australian Labor's Makin in UNO's high command. Lie called a press conference, waved his arms at the reporters, bellowed: UNO will be bigger, stronger, sounder than the League of Nations ever...
Norman John Oswald Makin had come a long way. Last week the errand boy from Broken Hill, who entered Australian politics at 19, was host at a dinner for his fellow UNO leaders at the swank Savoy in London. Russia's terrifying Vishinsky was gaily talkative on his right, and China's Wellington Koo suavely quiet on his left...
...Norman Makin is a teetotaling Methodist lay preacher at home but he gave his guests wine and brandy while drinking orange juice himself. All week Norman Makin, chairman of the Security Council of the United Nations Organization, was a busy, genial host. Even so, he had an uneasy time...
There was that letter (addressed fraternally to "Dear N. Makin") from old-time Bolshevik Dmitry Manuilsky, who as chairman of the Ukrainian delegation* ran the Russian show until Vishinsky finally arrived from his lengthy briefing by Stalin and Molotov. The letter asked Makin for a UNO probe of British activities in Indonesia. In the same delivery came a similar note on Greece from Andrei Gromyko, Russian ambassador to the U.S. and Russian member of UNO's Assembly. With Iran's appeal against Russian interference in Azerbaijan already on the Council docket, Makin was suddenly in the center...