Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 1939, Duplessis used the law eleven times. Until last week, he had not used it once since his return to power in August 1944. Now, with provincial elections just around the corner, the law seemed just the ticket for the anti-Red campaign which is supposed to bring in many Duplessis votes...
...reverted to Simon. She tended the llama-dung fire, melted the snow for drinking water, and prodded Simon on when he tired of hacking away at the mountainside. When he finally struck the rich lode that became the fabulous La Salvadora mine, she helped load the sacks with ore, bring it down on llama-back, and grind it on a millstone...
...Pearl (RKO Radio) was almost as big as a golf ball. To the simple, impoverished man (Pedro Armendariz) who nearly drowned himself to bring it out of the sea, it embodied all but unimaginable wealth, and the promise of knowledge and freedom...
Mirabeau lives in history as the nobleman whose defiance of the king did much to bring on the French Revolution. When Louis XVI ordered the Third Estate to vote separately from the other orders, it was Mirabeau who said: "Go and tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the people, and that we shall not leave except by force of bayonets...
...prison because of his gambling debts, or because he was pursued by his revengeful father. He seduced an heiress, and contrived to be discovered with her, so as to marry her. They lived in a gloomy old castle infested with bugs. Mirabeau bankrupted himself trying to bring it up to the standard of luxury his wife had always known. Cuckolded, he forgave his wife. Meanwhile his sister had quarreled with her husband, who took to printing obscene verses about her, and Mirabeau took her part...