Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creative when they carry that ideal of a free society out into the world, than if they sit at home to hug it to themselves. ... I suspect that Americans will find initiative and action so much more to their taste than any panic-stricken waiting on what destiny may bring...
...date of departure, had been kept a close secret. . . . Tanks, armoured cars, lorries, mule trains, mountain artillery . . . moved in good order [marking]thebeginningofaneleven-day march. . . . Almost every yard of the 70-mile road . . . will bring the hazard of ambush by tribesmen who are still under the influence of the Fakir...
Oilmen wondered if Getty would now toss Bill Skelly out of the presidency of the company he had founded. Skelly had some ideas of his own: he threatened to bring another suit, aimed to throw Mission Corp. into liquidation and divide its holdings, including Skelly Oil, among its stockholders...
...motives or in his economics. A hundred vessels lay in the harbor, while the crews lived on charity, the shipyards grew idle, the ropemakers and sailmakers went out of business, the stores closed, the blockmakers, pumpmakers, anchor smiths and chainmakers were out of work, the farmers could no longer bring their produce to town, the masts and spars and oak planks no longer came in from the forests. Phillips estimates that during the year it lasted, the embargo cost the country $80,000,000. If Jefferson thought he was punishing England and France for interfering with American commerce...
...everyone knows, inflation will be a central issue in the 1948 campaign. Harry Truman got his licks in early: "Inflation and the high cost of living confront the American people-all the American people-with a grave danger. Unchecked inflation can bring on a serious depression that can cause untold hardship. . . . The American people look to the Congress to pass legislation adequate to perform this all-important task. I trust that when the Congress returns it will promptly enact an effective, workable program...