Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When we get the necessary evidence assembled." says Macapagal, "we plan to bring criminal charges against this man. And then we will impeach...
...Israel's tenth anniversary celebrations, the Israelis scheduled a Jerusalem military parade so big and bristling that some diplomats, notably Britain's Ambassador Sir Francis Rundall, declared that it would embarrass them to be invited: to bring large numbers of troops and heavy equipment so close to the border would be a violation of the Jordanian-Israeli armistice agreement. "If Jordan doesn't mind our bringing heavy stuff up here for one day," huffed an Israeli Foreign Office spokesman, "why should the diplomats worry...
...fair on the ground floor four years ago. "It is inconceivable that the Catholic Church should not be represented at such a gathering," said the Rev. Jan Joos, secretary-general of the Holy See's pavilion. "Since most people no longer come to the church, we must bring the church to them." To help raise money, the church went farther than the fair itself: 53 national committees were organized, and representatives appointed in other countries. Posters were printed in ten languages, a pavilion magazine published in seven...
...make our pavilion big," Fagel explains. "There's such a crying need for money for other purposes. People don't come to the fair to go to church. We didn't plan congresses, the way the Catholics did." (The Catholics will hold some 60 congresses, will bring the faithful to Brussels from all over Europe in 1,000 buses and numerous special trains.) One Protestant worry is the electronic carillon in the Civitas Dei bell tower 570 yards away. "I hope they don't play it too much," gloomed Fagel last week. "We'd like...
...self-deprecating. He rarely refers to himself in the first person-usually as "one." He frequently covers his mouth when he laughs, can rarely bring himself to look anybody in the eye. He is painfully sensitive about his baldness, though he stoically refuses to wear a hairpiece in private life. He talks so quietly that people who talk with him usually wind up whispering, and he walks so softly, a colleague says, that "he is usually at your elbow before you know he is there. Sort of materializes like the Cheshire Cat." He has a tic of shrugging that comes...