Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether Stalin can contain Titoism within its present manageable proportions, or whether it will widen into an irreparable schism, is a question for the best Russian brains. But Titoism has already achieved one thing-it has exploded the theory that communism, if it came to power, could bring the world unity and peace. For that, at least, loudmouthed Dictator Tito deserved the West's gratitude. As one American observer in Europe put it last week: "The time is surely come when the West should stop thinking of communism as a block which might splinter but can never crack...
...Oppressed Redskins. For more than an hour, Russia's bland, hulking Delegate Yakov A. Malik tried to keep the inquiry off the agenda. The case of the "Traitor Mindszenty," he argued, was of concern to Hungary only; the U.S. attempt to bring it before the Assembly was merely a move by the "ruling circles [of America] to boss other people around in their own homes." Moreover, cried Malik, the U.S. was trying to cover up its own sins of oppression, the trials of "political [Communist] leaders," the lynching of Negroes and the "pitiful plight" of the American Indians...
Labor proposed to bring in a chairman from the outside who could swing the aldermen to the Laborites...
...tunghsi, or curio salesmen, find business rough. Their bronzes, brasswork and jade figurines bring only a quarter of the price they commanded last winter. One tunghsi man reminisces mournfully: "The mandarin coats-ah! We used to sell them for $20 apiece. When we ran out of real ones we went to the undertakers and bought up their supply of secondhand burial clothes. The burial clothes were even more ornate, and the Americans were twice as happy...
...Baruch, are like cornered animals, and thus suffer enough. In common with other children, they often feel rejected by their mothers and become hostile to their parents. Hostility, according to Miller and Baruch, "is an almost universal phenomenon in our culture." But the allergic children are afraid to bring their hostility out into the open ; they bottle it up until it breaks out as illness. They feel guilty about their hostility and are really punishing themselves by getting sick...