Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working together, these four helped bring about one of the House's finest hours. Said ex-Protectionist Weeks accurately after the voting: "This nation's and the free world's hopes for unity, economic power and lasting peace are strengthened by today's great action...
...tribesman who spent a year at Ruskin College, Oxford, Mboya has become increasingly strident in his complaints against British attempts to bring about a gradual "multi-racial'' government in Kenya. Insisting on "parliamentary democracy for the African masses." he lashed out at the Colonial Office's 1957 constitution, which for the first time gave the 6,000,000 Africans the same number of elected seats in the Legislative...
...recently left his army command to study history at the Hebrew University and is regarded by all, Ben-Gurion included, as a political comer. General Dayan has been stumping the country this month urging that it is now more important to develop industry and irrigation than to bring in more settlers, and proclaiming that Israel (one-third of whose income still comes from foreign subsidies) must slash its living standards if it is to live as an independent nation-state...
...honest reappraisal forced him early in the '30s to begin hedging on the desirability of breaking away from the U.S. "I want my people to want independence," he explained to a friend in those days. "Once they do that, they will set powerful forces in motion and may bring things to the point where independence is unnecessary or even bad." Later, when Congress, piqued by anti-U.S. riots in Puerto Rico, briefly considered an independence bill that would have pushed the island outside U.S. tariff walls, Muñoz had switched his views so much that he likened...
...burning countryside . . . But when the shouts grew louder and nearer, as each group came up it went pelting along to the shouting men in front, and the shouting was louder and louder as the crowds increased. Xenophon mounted his horse, and took Lycios with his horsemen, and galloped to bring help. Soon they heard the soldiers shouting 'Sea! Sea!' and passing the word along . . . When they all reached the summit then they embraced each other, captains and officers and all, with tears running down their cheeks...