Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Paris, Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre reported that inasmuch as New Year's Day falls on Saturday, normally the heaviest work day of the week for overseas bureau-men, any undue celebrating the night before would automatically bring its own punishment. In Madrid, Correspondent Piero Saporiti expected to join the crowd in the Puerta del Sol (Madrid's Times Square), dodging the used electric light bulbs that Madridians store away for this occasion, whirring a wooden zambomba which gives out a deafening clack, and brandishing a bunch of grapes over his head (you eat twelve grapes...
...looked as though there would be a new face in Moscow even though Harry Truman stayed in the White House. Leaving ugly, gloomy Spasso House for a vacation in the U.S., Beedle Smith admitted only: "I have handed in my resignation according to form. What the New Year will bring I don't know." Newsmen who watched him pack up all of his personal belongings before he left guessed that he was not planning to come back to Russia...
...employee agrees . . . that he will not do or commit any act or thing that will tend to degrade him in society or bring him into public hatred, contempt, scorn or ridicule, or that will tend to shock, insult or offend the community . . . or prejudice the producer or the motion picture, theatrical or radio industry in general...
...instructed the jury to consider only four questions. Did Cole's defiance of Congress bring him into "public hatred"? Did he "offend" the public? Did he "prejudice" his employers? Did M-G-M forfeit the right to break his contract because it waited a full month to fire him? Said Yankwich: "If the studio knew, when Cole came back from Washington, what his conduct had been there and nevertheless continued to reimburse him, then I instruct you that M-G-M then waived its right to take action against...
...last third of An Act of Love is a first-rate, exciting war report. Correspondent Wolfert can describe a battle in its coherent entirety while focusing attention on a few men fighting in it. But as a novelist, he cannot bring to life the feelings of men in war with the same vividness that he brings a battle to life. Towards his sad weakling of a hero, whom Wolfert tiresomely philosophizes over, the reader can feel only the sort of minor pity one feels for a sick puppy...