Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back, Old Soldier Marshall might wonder himself. It was a kaleidoscopic story of surprise, improvisation and counterattack. When he took over as Secretary of State, George Marshall, despite his attendance at wartime conferences, was no skilled diplomat. He had been sent to China as a special presidential envoy to bring peace between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government and the Chinese Communists. He failed in his mission. He came back denouncing the Chinese Communists as "irreconcilable," the Nationalists as "reactionary...
While Father X talked, there came a knock on the door. A young, weatherbeaten face peered in. "You have a package for me?" asked Father X. "All right, bring it in." A moment later three young men appeared, grunting under the weight of a long package. It was pointed at one end, wide and flat at the other. Toward the pointed end was a bulge-just where the feet of a machine gun fold...
Juan Domingo Perón, boss of Argentina, peered into the future, reported back that 1948 would be "very bad" and 1949 "terrible." But he was doing his best, he said, scooping up a slightly congested metaphor: "I am trying to bring accord . . . so that we may all kick the ball toward the same goal...
...speculation has "declined sharply." Commodity traders, who are dead set against any governmental control of margins, took no comfort from Mehl's report. But New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram cried that Mehl had performed a "public service" in showing how high stock exchange margins had helped bring on the speculation in commodities. However, Schram thought that the answer was not to raise commodity margins, but lower margins on stocks...
Futuramlc. Oldsmobile will bring out a radically different postwar model in February, the first General Motors division to do so. Oldsmobile's "Futuramic '98" will have a lower, wider body and larger windows than the '47s. For the conservative, Oldsmobile will also turn out two new models with fewer changes from 1947 design...