Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were complaining of difficulty in breathing. Doctors, hurrying to answer calls, quickly concluded that the fog was lethal mainly to elderly people suffering from asthma or heart trouble. But they were puzzled about its effects. Victims seemed to suffer partial paralysis of the diaphragm. Nothing but oxygen seemed to bring relief...
Under the frozen surface, the cold struggle for power continued. In the Soviet zone of Germany, the Russians were building up a huge new German "police" force (see FOREIGN NEWS). The five Brussels Treaty nations, plus the U.S. and Canada, were getting ready to bring out into the open some plans for a North Atlantic Defense Pact (see CANADA)-under which the U.S. and Canada might start a new flow of military lend-lease to Western Europe. Otherwise, matters were on dead center for a few days...
...cool, temperate region with enough rainfall to support dense forest, an entirely different type of soil develops: a podsol.† Tree roots do not bring enough lime to keep the soil from being acid, and their dead leaves form a layer of loose mold on the surface. Just below is a light-colored, often almost white layer of soil from which most of the soluble minerals have been leached by the heavy rainfall. Such a tree-formed soil is favorable for trees, but when man clears the forest and plants his grasslike wheat or corn, he gets poor crops...
Many Republicans have harshly criticized the Marshall mission of two years ago, which attempted to bring both sides together in a coalition government. Now as then, however, the single alternative to that program is American military support of the Civil War. Such support cannot save the fascistic Kuomintang and will only further estrange the liberals whose friendship is essential to the reconstruction of China along Western lines. In view of the present fiasco, the only realistic policy is to recognize Chiang's defeat and his inability to govern any longer...
...emergency night sessions grew out of Valpey's urge to bring the Big Three (Harvard-Princeton-Yale) title to Cambridge for the first time in seven years...