Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conviction of the cabbie who ran down and killed Margaret Mitchell [TIME, Aug. 22] will not bring her back, or save the lives of others...
...Cost What It Will." Organized labor was out to punish him for being the author of the Taft-Hartley Act and leader of the forces that blocked its repeal. "Cost what it will," the A.F.L.'s William Green had vowed, "we are going to bring about the defeat of the outstandingly reprehensible Senator Taft." A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were prepared to spend millions (collected in $1 and $2 rank & file assessments) to defeat him. He had angered...
...boarding the Mauretania en route to the Washington conference on the British dollar crisis, Ministers Bevin and Cripps tried to be less doleful. They linked arms and beamed for cameramen. Bevin remarked that they were on "one of the most important missions in history." Someone yelled from the dockside, "Bring us back some dollars!" Bevin said: "I would ask the public not to expect to find the solution in a moment." Sir Stafford smiled toothily at his colleague's statement. "Good," he applauded. "Well done...
Louis was a student at St. Charles-Borromee Seminary, a bilingual (French-English) college in Sherbrooke. Because seminary discipline kept him indoors on election night, St. Laurent plotted with an outsider to bring election returns from the local newspaper office and tie them to a string dropped from his dormitory window...
...suggest that it will be worthwhile to turn the Government's inquiring eye on itself -and determine how the government's . . . bodies contribute to the delinquency of small business." But reforms, if any, will not do him any good, he says; "neither . . . investigations, decrees nor edicts . . . can bring me back to life as a competitive factor in the oil marketing business...