Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unemployment figures go up again in March-when seasonal factors usually bring new hiring-the Cabinet's impatient men will push for a hefty tax cut. Last week Administration tax experts were already working over such ideas as a one-year repeal of certain excise taxes, e.g., halving the tax on new autos, thereby saving the buyer $100 or more a year.* And they also were making practice passes at some new ideas, e.g., a two-month forgiveness of withholding taxes that could instantly pump out $2.3 billion in spendable take-home pay, thus give the economy a quick...
Lyndon Johnson's mental alarm clock went off just before 7 o'clock. He swept his long black hair out of his eyes, smoothed it over the thinning area on top of his head. Then he pushed the bedside buzzer for Cook Zephyr Wright to bring up his tomato juice, pink Texas grapefruit, venison sausage (made from a deer Johnson shot last fall) and half a cup of Sanka. He devoured his breakfast, along with the latest Congressional Record, its ink still wet enough to stain his fingers. By 7:30 he was in the bathroom, working...
...U.A.W. called a strike. Kohler laid in an arsenal of submachine guns, shotguns, clubs and tear-gas bombs, settled down for a long siege. Apparently, tough-fibered Herbert Kohler welcomed the strike as an opportunity to shake off Reuther & Co. A high Kohler official predicted that the strike would bring the company 20 years of peace, as had the broken 1934 strike...
Gaillard's excuse to Murphy and Beeley was the familiar one that in the present delicate state of French politics any conciliatory gesture he might make toward Tunisia would bring his government down. But in the present delicate state of Arab politics French failure to come to a settlement with the Algerian rebels was rapidly obliterating France's last hope of retaining any influence in North Africa...
...board and the local P.T.A. One group grumbled that the old building should be torn down to make a playground for an adjoining new school. Other Villagers made plain their dislike of "a special school for a bunch of juvenile delinquents." Muttered a beat-pounding cop: "They ought to bring up a couple of drill instructors from Parris Island to teach them a few things...