Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nations newly emerged from colonial status are irritated by U.S. unwillingness to support their every aspiration, however unrealistic. Many somehow expected that independence would bring with it the material blessings they had always lacked, and blamed the U.S. when it proved unable to provide them...
...course at five colleges and institutions around the country, get paid $75 a week (plus travel money and $15 a week for each dependent) by the National Science Foundation. By 1960, Committee Chairman Dr. Jerrold R. Zacharias hopes to have trained an army of 10,000 teachers able to bring modern physics to 600,000 pupils a year. The prospect is enough to make Dr. Zacharias chuckle: "I think the program should be classified. If the Russians find out, they will steal it from...
While most critics become crabbier with age, Veteran Atkinson seems to some theatergoers to have mellowed. After the Times covered the Sardi's party in its theater-review format under the headline FOR (NOT BY) BROOKS ATKINSON, some readers wondered how he could bring himself to rap another play. Their fears proved groundless. That night Critic Atkinson left the opening performance of Norman Krasna's Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (see THEATER), strode two blocks to the Times and neatly scribbled a panning review...
...buzz to simulate loud strings, sing "tick, tick, tick" for a woodwind sound and "takata" for the brasses. "Oo," he commented, "seemed to me sort of bluish. When we sang 'takata' it seemed like a fiery orange." With a flick of the wrist in midsentence, he would bring in the 107-man New York Philharmonic to illustrate his points, rapidly skipping from Mozart to Stravinsky to Hindemith. The finale: a rousing performance of Ravel's Bolero, part of which he compared to "very high class hootchy-kootchy music...
...Timothy J. McCarthy, soliciting advertising at a sporting-goods store for the Catholic Review, displayed a copy of the paper that contained a warning to advertisers against an impostor salesman named Timothy J. McCarthy, confessed when sentenced to two years that in his own case the paper did not bring results-he had never bothered to read...