mak

/ mæk /

verb

(Or as Gehry framed it in the Sketches documentary: “mak[ing] beauty with junk”).

Tim Mak and Caitlin Dickson contributed reporting to this story.

POLITICO's Tim Mak reports a humorous example of kneejerk reactionaries at work.

The ringleader was Willie Mak, and he got the death penalty, a sentence later overturned in federal habeas corpus proceedings.

If Willie Mak was going to get the death penalty, Ng surely would, too.

But the money was the thing that did it, Mr. Rundell, an' I'm no' gaun to mak' excuses noo aboot it.

Mag ay cried that it was best to mak' a splash aboot the things you did; but, by sirs, she has made yin this time.

"Drink up, an' let us mak' a nicht o't," and thus urged they drained their glasses, and had them refilled again and again.

An' noo I maun leave ye to mak' what ye can oot o' this, for I jalouse it'll pass ye to untaukle the whole hypothec.

"Ye're real good, and I'll just mak' shift to stay in," replied Mary Jones.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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