Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sticking firmly to the position he had assumed during his weekly press conference -that nothing which had happened had changed his opinion of his old friend Harry Vaughan in the slightest. Mulling Harry Truman's stubborn friendship for his military aide, the Washington Post had a suggestion to make: ". . . it seems to us that the time has come for the general to demonstrate his friendship [in turn] for the President... by resigning and so sparing his patron any further embarrassments...
...Maligned distortions drug our thinking," said Hoover. "The slogan of the 'welfare state' . . . has emerged for a totalitarian state . . . These slogans and phrases and . .. vague promises ... frustrate those basic human impulses to production which alone make a dynamic nation...
...prison, Montgomery tried to make the most of his ride on the slow train to nowhere. He struck up a friendship with a more famous prisoner, Nathan ("Bebe") Leopold of Chicago's sensational Leopold & Loeb slaying, and from him learned how to read and write. After that he kept pretty much to himself, read a lot and spent his leftover time hoping for justice...
...steaming manholes as martens avoid traps; when walking they tried to route themselves past the doors of air-conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber's hot towel, or the simple process of swallowing hot coffee, was enough to make a shirt go limp or a woman's make-up shine greasily. In the packed and airless slums, tens of thousands slept on rooftops or fire escapes. The heat seemed even more pitiless out across the farm states, where farmers often worked from sunup to sundown, sweating in the fields...
After 14 years and countless breaks and reconciliations, Siri and August were divorced. He grew a Mephistophelean beard and devoted himself to the study of evil. He roamed about Europe, now trying to photograph the moon, now trying to make gold. He was interested in the Orient and Buddhism...