Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...items on the agenda: 1) to set up a European body to supervise Marshall Plan aid; 2) to work out a declaration of economic policy. They would try to decide just what each nation could best produce with its machines and men, how to reduce tariff barriers, how to bring the official value of national currencies into line with real purchasing power...
...this purpose there should be an emergency policy designed to secure immediate and effective cooperation between, the countries of Western Europe; and a long-term policy designed to bring into being a federation of Europe...
...Leninists' knout. Lenin called him "the decadent neurotic." This policeman was interested in Persian art and higher mathematics. He wrote erotic poetry and read pornographic novels in his office between executions. He was plump, languid, soft-voiced, given to blue moods. He said: "Our task is to bring culture to the masses at a terrific speed." His OGPU, successor to the CHEKA,' brought death by execution and starvation to millions of Ukrainian and other peasants...
...coalfields of the Pas-de-Calais, 30,000 Communist-led miners went on strike. That was enough to jar the delicate balance of French politics and set in motion a realignment of parties which may bring De Gaulle to power this spring...
...With unique genius "Don Giovanni" portrays the interplay of two most fundamental of life's forces: religion and sex. In the cataclysmic conclusion of the opera, when the statue accepts the arrogant nobleman's invitation to dinner, we realize that it can be only a supernatural power which will bring Don Giovanni to his doom. Behind the opera's dramatic end is one of the greatest portrayals of right's ascension over wrong...