Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved to bring idealism and realism into line, warned the well-to-do that it was time to bring down the barriers and get on with the trade-or else...
...nation can long exist with an economy half Communist and half free. And yet this is what Wladyslaw Gomulka has tried to bring off in Poland. Being a Communist, he did not intend it that way either, but had to react to the situation of Poland's arrested revolution of October 1956. His compromising never sat well with the diehards of the Stalinist era, who believed in tough and tidy centralized control. Gomulka allowed more local authority for factory managers and town bosses, and peasants were permitted to abandon the collective farms to till their own plots...
...slob with more assiduity than conviction. Mr. Hooks, charged with the equally difficult task of erecting a convincing facade around Jim's lunar desolation, elects a vaudeville entertainer's spring step and circus-barker patter; but it is the actor, not the character, who seems not quite able to bring...
...bulldozer and crane and it was not until this past summer that the archaeologists were able to uncover much of the construction. It now appears that "CG" was made into an elaborate bath by the Romans with furnace for heating and an intricate piping system to bring the water of the torrent, the Patoclus, to the baths. Another major Roman innovation was the addition of five retaining walls and a cylindrical enclosed area almost as tall as the rest of the building. The building has been built in three separate stages: the as-yet undated early stage, the late Roman...
Even so, Coach Schwartzwalder took his lumps until the early '50s, when independent Syracuse (enrollment: 7,000) decided to go big time. Counting on the New York Thruway to bring new fans to the stadium, Syracuse gave Schwartzwalder authority and money to recruit some shock troops ("If we can get 'em, we can coach 'em"). In 1953 a Negro halfback named Jimmy Brown showed up unannounced, went on to become the finest running back in the game (he now leads the pros as a Cleveland Brown), and in no time Schwartzwalder and Syracuse were rising toward...