Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco he labored out front and backstage to try to bring harmony between U.S. Senator Bill Knowland, the would-be Governor, and Governor Goodwin J. Knight, the reluctant would-be U.S. Senator, while steering clear of Knowland's lonely stand for a right-to-work...
With an executive's shrewd touch, Waldorf Vice President Philippe handled banquets for the world's great, found ways to bring hungry hordes, good food and hot plates together, cannily governed his hotel empire of seven restaurants, 30 banquet rooms, a liveried army of some 600, and the boudoir snacks of 2,000 guests. With the accountant's sure hand, he also dispensed to suppliers annual orders for $200,000 in silver, china and glass, $350,000 in furniture, $2,500,000 in food and $1,000,000 in drink. In these commissions, Philippe had the decisive...
...Algeria, and Constantine's European settlers were cheered. But not for long. In fact, within a few minutes, the leaders of Constantine's right-wing Committee of Public Safety-seated not on the rostrum but in a stand near by-stomped out angrily. They might have helped bring De Gaulle to power, but the triumphant Premier no longer needed them...
...oversimplification to state that in the faculties of major universities in the United States today, the evaluation of performance is based almost exclusively on publication." Result: a neglect of what teachers are hired for-teaching-and "a great deal of foolish and unnecessary research . . . undertaken by men who bring to their investigations neither talent nor interest." The ambitious academician's sole aim is to accumulate published titles, as a young actor squirrels away television credits. Title-squirreling pays off: "Success is likely to come to the man who has learned to neglect his assigned duties" in favor...
Precious Dust. Worst damage would be done by a nuclear explosion, fission or fusion. It would contaminate the lunar atmosphere with radioactive gases and sprinkle the moon's surface with radioactive debris. Almost as bad would be the big, backward-pushing retrorockets that would be needed to bring a small packet of instruments to a soft landing on the moon; they would require the release of so much burned fuel that the moon's tenuous atmosphere would never be the same again...