Faces In TIME
Match each description to the Man or Woman of the Year who fits it best

9. "Like most of mankind he was ill prepared for the destiny and responsibility which had been thrust upon him. He did not want the responsibility; the destiny rested awkwardly on his shoulders."
a. Dwight Eisenhower - 1944
b. Harry Truman-1945
c. Konrad Adenauer-1953
d. George Bush - 1990
10. " Where most mid-20th century statesmen feel obliged to cloak their extraordinary qualities in a mantle of folksiness, he unabashedly regards himself as a historic figure and comports himself as a man of greatness."
a. Franklin Roosevelt - 1934
b. Charles de Gaulle-1958
c. Lyndon B. Johnson - 1964
d. Richard Nixon - 1971
11. "Curiously, it was in a jail that the year's end found the man whose ... mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all."
a. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-1930
b. Hungarian Freedom Fighter - 1956
c. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1963
d. Lech Walesa - 1981
12. "[This] was a year of blood and strength. The man whose name means steel in Russian, whose few words of English include the American expression 'tough guy' was the man of [the year]."
a. Joseph Stalin-1942
b. Nikita Khrushchev-1957
c. Yuri Andropov - 1983
d. Mikhail Gorbachev-1987
13. "He emerged as a tough, determined world leader. Finally seizing firm control of his office, he was willing to break sharply with tradition in his privately expressed desire 'to make a difference' in his time."
a. Harry Truman - 1948
b. Richard Nixon-1971
c. George Bush - 1990
d. Deng Xiaoping - 1985
14. "[T]he firm that [he] built has survived in one of the most tumultuous industries in history, emerging to become one of the most powerful companies of our age, with a stranglehold on one of the most transformative technologies of the 20th century."
a. Walter P. Chrysler-1928
b. Harlow Herbert Curtice - 1955
c. Ted Turner - 1991
d. Andrew S. Grove-1997
15. "When he talks, it is not only to his flock of nearly a billion; he expects the world to listen. And the flock and the world listen, not always liking what they hear."
a. Pope John XXIII - 1962
b. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1963
c. King Faisal - 1974
d. Pope John Paul II-1994
16. "Greatest ambition of [this newsmaker] seemed to be to drop from world publicity's most glaring spotlight to utter oblivion."
a. Wallis Warfield Simpson-1937
b. General William Westmoreland-1965
c. Richard Nixon - 1971
d. Bill Clinton - 1992
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