Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unchastened, Bevan put a restless foot back in his nimble mouth. Opening a maternity hospital at Holyhead, he said that men of Celtic fire were needed to bring about great reforms like the new health service. That was why, he explained, Welshmen were put in charge instead of "the bovine and phlegmatic Anglo-Saxons." How Bevan's Labor associates, including Anglo-Saxons Attlee, Morrison and Bevin, liked that one was not revealed. Unphlegmatic Anglo-Saxon Winston Churchill, however, put his head down and charged. Said he: "We speak of the Minister of Health-but ought we not rather...
...probably could have been kept from final decision for years. But if they had to give in some time, steelmen figured, the''best possible time was during the present sellers' market. In addition to boosting current profit, the switch to an f.o.b. price system would bring pressure on Congress, from thousands of high-paying steel users, to authorize a return to basing points...
...frowzy Grace Fernald has treated hundreds of thousands of such cases of "word blindness." Her only requirements: that pupils be of normal intelligence and that their parents leave them at the clinic until the cure is complete. In two months to two years, she has usually been able to bring their reading ability up to their mental age level...
...skin Mlle. Mala gave Irene a "person-alysis" (standard Rubinstein treatment). "If you want to be a good actress," she said, "concentrate on it. Without hard work we just achieve nothing." Delivered of this thought, Mlle. Mala told Nicky to "oval out [Irene's] jaws . . . utilize the cheekbones . . . bring more personality to the eyes . . . give the lips a little bit more luscious look...
...International Telephone & Telegraph. Insurgent stockholders, led by Financier Clendenin Ryan, had succeeded in electing seven (out of 23) directors (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week, Behn voluntarily relaxed some more control. He stepped out as president (remaining as chairman and chief executive officer), got his new board to bring in an outsider: A.T.&T.'s operations & engineering chief, Vice President William H. Harrison...