Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to the Canadian Legation and saw the press before going to the White House-a procedure that allowed him to be franker with newshawks than if he had seen them afterward. To all suggested topics for discussion at the White House, he replied either that he might bring them up if the spirit moved him, or that he would be glad to discuss them if the President wished to. Only one small slip did he make. Forgetting for the moment that the New Deal has taken many emergency measures and that his prospective host had proclaimed a New Crisis...
...only mind its own business, but shall also stand up for its rights. To them, the Pittman proposal seemed a craven yielding up of the great right of freedom of the seas, for which the nation had stood through all its history. Furthermore, they declaimed, it would not bring peace, but war. Since only two nations have navies big enough to do a cash & carry business with the U. S., this nation would inevitably become an ally of Great Britain in the Atlantic, Japan in the Pacific. Stirred to wrath and driven to desperation, their antagonists, boomed Senator Borah, might...
...division (nose-counting). This formality Major Attlee could have forced if Labor were sincere in wanting to get on record who is for and who is against Rearmament. Bleated Laborite Ammon of the rank & file: "Those who should hold the confidence of the country are using that confidence to bring on preparations for war-a war which was the very thing they pledged themselves against...
...time ago discovered that good weather for outdoor "shooting" is one thing that even Hollywood cannot buy. Dr. Krick's uncanny ability to predict, a day or so in advance, the hour when rain will start or stop, when fog will roll in or lift, is reputed to bring him fat fees from cinema coffers...
...shaped well at the base of the control column, bent and crushed as by heavy pressure. Reconstructing the tragedy, the investigators could see Pilot Thompson making his banked turn over the Bay; the microphone falling off its hook unnoticed; Pilot Thompson pulling back on his stick to bring the ship's nose up after the turn; the stick jamming, Pilot Thompson straining horrified against it as the ship roared on down to smite the water...