Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from London. Harry Truman and his entire Cabinet were at Washington's airport to give him a warming welcome. As Marshall stepped from the Sacred Cow, the President greeted him: "Good morning. You did a good job." Said Marshall: "I'm sorry that I couldn't bring back a profitable result...
Then the skirmishing began. Committee Chairman Styles Bridges subpoenaed Anderson, told him to bring his list along. Appearing before the committee behind closed doors. Anderson battled stubbornly for two. hours. He pleaded that he hated to refuse information to Congress. He protested that the 1936 law stood in his way; it specified that names of traders must be kept confidential by the Government. But if Congress would pass a resolution which, in effect, rescinded that part of the law, he was sure the President would sign it. (That would also give Anderson an opening to make the list public...
Everybody knew beforehand that the Communists were powerful. So. long as they did not call for a general strike, Italians assumed that the Reds could bring one off. Now they had made the gesture, and the "weak" De Gasperi government had been able to overcome it. Collapse of the strike, however, did not mean that Communist power in Italy was broken or even badly bent. Conservative Rome was not the Red stronghold. Yet the Rome fiasco cost the Communists face, and partially freed De Gasperi from the constant threat of veto action by Communist-led unions against government policies...
...claim to the water in all the clouds passing over his 12,000-acre Rocking F Ranch near Reno. He was not cloud-cuckoo-land-crazy. He intends, he explained, to sprinkle dry ice on some of the clouds, and he wants full title to the rain he may bring down, wherever it falls...
Then what will the thirsty neighbors do? Have they a right to sue the dry-ice man? Or must they all get airplanes and try to bring down their own clouds? Thus far, neither the Federal Government nor any state has passed laws to regulate man-made rain...