Word: offing
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Winston Churchill remarked that Franklin Roosevelt's life was one of the commanding events in human history. The triumph of freedom in the face of depression and totalitarianism was not foretold or inevitable. It required political courage and leadership. We now know what Roosevelt and his generation made of their...
Take the test of the century--100 questions based on the events of the past 100 years, as covered in the pages of TIME [ANSWERS ON LAST PAGE OF QUIZ]
FACES IN TIME Match each numbered description to the Man or Woman of the Year who fits it best.
1. "[This Person of the Year] showed that politics could be the art of the impossible; that force could speak softly and carry a small stick."
2. "[His] carefully cultivated air of mystic detachment cloaks an iron will, an inflexible devotion to simple ideas that he has preached for decades."