Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he went back to the White House, Vaughan still seemed slightly in need of a little laundering himself. But the committee had failed dismally in its efforts to roast him up brown; the fires of its wrath had done little more than make him break into an occasional sweat...
...week's end, most Detroiters were still sitting back. Symphony critics, who thought that sufficient support could still be found if autocratic President Reichhold stepped out of the top job, were waiting for him to make the next move...
...make matters worse, his dead father, famed Sir Dagobert, had always been a very model of knighthood, had throttled a hawk at the age of two, killed a wild boar at six. Willie wasn't impressed by such accounts, but his mother, the Dame de Littlehampton, wouldn't let him forget them; she was the kind of lady who expected her only son to make his mark on the armor and the life expectancy of his foes. When she hustled poor, terrified Willie off to join King Richard's crusade in the Holy Land, militant Christianity enlisted...
During his three years on the loose in the neutral jungle, Chapman trained Chinese Communist guerrillas, lived and fought with them. He admired the rank & file fighters although, in a sense, he was their prisoner. No guerrilla band could make a move, nor its leaders a decision, without an O.K. from party headquarters. It took months for Chapman to get a suggestion to the party bigwigs and their reply; a good deal of the time was spent in enforced and irritating idleness. He was always admired but always a little suspect, and could not move from band to band without...
...thanks to the alliance of Don Ricardo's liberals and the Communists. But Don Ricardo wondered what the Communists would do if they got the cabinet posts they demanded, especially the police ministry. In the end, with troubled Carlos at his side, he drove in the darkness to make a deal with what was left of the old Ronquistas, the dictator's former followers...