Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1947, just before taking off to see his dying mother in Independence, President Truman signed an important piece of legislation at Washington's National Airport. It was the National Security Act which had just been passed by Congress and which was designed to bring order and teamwork to the squabbling military establishment...
Under the Roof. Defense Secretary Forrestal has insisted from the beginning that unification must be gradual. It is, he said, like trying to bring General Motors, U.S. Steel, Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward together under one roof. As the Hoover Commission noted, he had, after a year and a half of trying, made some "substantial progress." Some items...
...Thus, it could get at the heart of the matter. It could, by defining the use of weapons, define the real functions of the various services. It could then greatly influence a decision, for instance, whether the Navy should go on building bigger aircraft carriers. It could, in short, bring about real unification-based on what each service can do best, not on what it thinks it ought or would like...
Such a crisis, according to the old Marxists, would bring on an internal revolutionary situation in each of the countries independently, depending on how advanced was the stage of capitalism. It was Lenin who broke away from Marx's idea of the revolutionary process operating all by itself in each country. Lenin deduced, contrary to Marx, that the series of Communist revolutions might start in a backward country, rather than in an advanced country. Lenin, justifying the un-Marxian revolution in slowpoke Russia, called this a "break" in the world front...
...bring Leadom to school, engineers of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. had rigged up an experimental machine called the "Teletalk." A special telephone circuit connects two sets of microphones and loudspeakers-one set in Teacher Fleda Cox's classroom, the other in Pupil Beatty's bedroom. Says Principal Dorothy Swope, who sold Southwestern Bell the idea: "It's surprising. When Leadom was actually in class, he was reticent. Now perhaps because he's called on more than anyone else, and because the other children have made him the most important member of their group...