Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blarney Justice. He was a one-man chamber of commerce and court of domestic relations. He administered blarney, justice or the back of his hand as the case demanded; he fished in Tammany's pork barrel for 28 years to bring improvements to "me people." He was rigidly honest. "If I wasn't," he explained, "I might get caught and have to go before a judge I mightn't even know...
...even in death he gave the Army a bad time. The Army was ready to bring his body back to the states, but could not locate any next-of-kin. Last week, after eleven months of looking, Pvt. Molotov's sister was found living in Manhattan. Said she: "Of course he is to come back. New York was his home. Karl loved this place...
...last week Lorna was back. "Israel is at war," she told Jewish friends in Tel Aviv, as she left for a visit to the U.S. "If I had gold and money I would contribute them for the war which my husband foresaw. Not having them, I decided to [bring] you my son ... to be educated in Israel and to be a loyal son of both Israel and Britain...
...Juan Fernandez Islands, 300 miles off the Chilean coast, the lobster season was in full swing. From now until August, the goletas (sloops) would bring into Valparaiso some 150,000 lobsters-the island's one cash crop. Shipped to Santiago or flown over the Andes to Buenos Aires, the langostas (unlike the Maine lobster, they are clawless) would bring fancy prices ($2 to $3) in the toniest restaurants of the Chilean and Argentine capitals...
Orator Fosdick, no scientist himself, tried hard to be optimistic: ". . . This telescope can furnish our stricken society with some measure of healing perspective. This great new window to the stars will bring . . . into fresh focus the mystery of the universe, its order, its beauty, its power. ... Adrift in a cosmos whose shores he cannot even imagine, man spends his energies in fighting with his fellow man over issues which a single look through this telescope would show to be utterly inconsequential...