Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember one night which marked the turning point of my dreams. We had prepared a group for action and selected a person whom we'd decided must cease to exist. We observed his habits and laid down a detailed plan. We were going to shoot him down as he returned to his home in the night...
...Thornton roared back, "I'll debate him-when and if he wins his primary fight. I'm going to ask him some technical questions about farming and I want real farmers to hear his answers. You have said that if the people of Colorado wanted a person who could do farm chores, they would have nominated Man Mountain Dean. You meant this as ridicule against every dirt farmer and his family in Colorado...
...Engineer? With a $4,000,000 budget, the E.T.S. has made up tests for law and medical schools, the armed-services academies, for the Knights of Columbus, the American Board of Surgery and the National Science Foundation. It is now trying to find ways to predict what sort of person will make a good salesman, a good minister or an engineer. It has brought new order to the nation's various scholarship programs, and to a large extent, it has eliminated the advantages that the private secondary schools once had in preparing for the old. more predictable college boards...
Penguin-a person entitled to wear wings but not on flying status...
...personal touch'' of a master of ceremonies has shaped Bill Alexander's whole ministry. "When Jesus walked the earth, people didn't line up in long rows to hear him." he said last week. "They gathered around him. So in our church we are bringing the congregation around the preacher . . . There shouldn't be any chasm between a preacher and the people. I'm no special holy person. I'm the same kind of guy as you are. The only difference is that I've taken as my profession the promotion...