Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle's opponents said he was trying to make himself master of the new Committee before the magic of his name waned. They said that even his Foreign Affairs Commissioner, Renè Massigli, and calm, friendly General Catroux were being alienated by his intransigence...
...face which combines individualism with typicality, a hairline intuition for the gentling (some would say falsification) which will make it most broadly appealing, a quick and simple love-richly shared with his audience-for home and homeliness in endless friendly details of flesh and costume. He is a master of nostalgias...
...okay it is a handsome, 36-year-old Negro teacher, Madeline Robinson Morgan. She is the wife of a civilian foreman at Chicago's Army Quartermaster Depot. As a girl Mrs. Morgan knew days and nights of terror, during Chicago's 1919 race riots. She got a master's degree in education at Northwestern University, taught at Chicago's Emerson School...
Airmen had their fingers crossed when WAVE tower operators were proposed. They doubted if they could master complex regulations, charts, procedures, meteorological and radio skills (the WAACs have shied away from it), were suspicious of how women would bear up under control-tower pressures...
...yesterday I found Oscar in a lamentable condition. I was sincerely sorry for him. He was lying in a crumpled heap on top of a "scope." I guess one of the Master Minds had knocked all the sparks out of him, because when I approached, he bowed reverently toward the East in an oriental fashion and muttered "Chaffee is the only God and Tatum is his prophet...