Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detroit editors listened intently to some motor and oil bigwigs who said there would be no European war, and who welcomed Hitler's firming grip on Central Europe because, they said, it would bring order out of chaos there. Exciting to Detroit was the thought that the new Dodge truck plant, world's largest, could be transformed overnight to produce shells, cannon or airplanes. Detroit editors differed with their tycoons: they believed European war inescapable, U. S. participation almost obligatory. Men-in-the-street did not yet take the situation personally, but newsstand sales were far above normal...
Grand Duke of Coshocton: "Now, John, no double-crossing. We've got to stick together in order to stay apart. If we let anyone bring us together we're sunk...
Wright hoped that with financial success he could resume his earlier scholarly career. But several months ago he became ill, developed coronary thrombosis. This time illness did not bring luck to 51-year-old Willard Huntington Wright. Instead, last week, came Death...
...Francisco State College's Marshall Blum claimed a record: 40 kisses in five minutes. At New York University Co-ed Dorothy McDonald kissed 36 boys in four and a half minutes. San Diego State College's Joseph Arthur Pranis staged a three-day hunger strike to bring gulpers "to their senses." At week's end he was thwarted by what seemed an ultimate -horror -in -gulping, which was perpetrated at University of Illinois. Pi Kappa Phi's John Poppelreiter, surrounded by admiring fraternity brothers, wrapped in lettuce and swallowed five live baby white mice...
...most of his stories, Saroyan relies not on ordered thought but on a kind of surrealist association of words and moods. If his play is sometimes picturesque and tender, it is far too often soft, like a slushy Chopin nocturne: seeking to evoke something, never mind what; to bring tears to the eyes, never mind...