Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great. Bring her down here...
...parade of personal triumphs would continue depended on whether Perón could lick Argentina's still unsolved economic crisis. His army critics seemed perfectly willing to leave that task to him for the present. Meanwhile, the high-flying Señora was reported setting her sights to bring down the boss of the army, whose criticisms had caused her so much recent embarrassment. When this news was conveyed to Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina, at his big army base outside the capital, the general's comment was blunt & brief: "If she wants...
...delighted to call ourselves Goldthorp or Asbell or Richmond College, or anything else," Armitage said, "if it will bring in a real endowment. If anybody doesn't have a million dollars but would like to put a smaller sum to good use, perhaps they'd like to endow the library or the chair of English literature. We'd be happy to make the namesake fit their pocketbook...
...limiting itself, said Trammell, to buying up a few expensive shows "for this season at the expense of the future." That other network, he noted, had had to borrow $5,000,000 to bring off its coups. And besides, radio couldn't be "satisfied indefinitely with the same material, the same performers, and the same programs." But NBC was nonetheless glad to be keeping some of its own: Fibber McGee & Molly, Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Bob Hope, "Duffy's Tavern." Trammell had also thrown together, he revealed, 30 fresh programs, which will employ such well-known stars...
...service. Passengers still had to line up for the trains, were often still packed in cars as tightly as books in a case. The railroad, which now owes the Pennsy $53 million, was far from worthless. "Even if it were sold for scrap," said a Pennsy official, "it would bring $65 million...