Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave me and my work. Of course I can't agree entirely with your thought-provoking article, but definitely, from now on, all the millions of parents and all the Aunt Emmas who will read your article will take a closer look at the new book they bring home to fill an empty moment in a child's life; and they might worry a little too (along with all of us who work on children's books and worry a lot) how the child will receive and react to the new book...
...learned to type," recalls Paul McElroy, now an engineer in Cambridge, Mass. "Father would bring home lists of teachers and set us down to the typewriter to copy them. Then he sold the list of names to advertisers [for promotion lists]. He was full of ideas." Result: Neil McElroy had saved $1,000 by the time he got out of Withrow High School, and he followed his brothers to Harvard (all three won scholarships from the Harvard Club of Cincinnati...
Moreover, Charlie Wilson's idea of improving Pentagon organization was to bring in more civilian officials, some plain incompetent, few with much real military knowledge. While the professional military men, with all their parochial bickering, are far from blameless, it is nonetheless true that the major mistakes of Wilson's day were made by civilians. It was civilian mismanagement of funds last year that forced procurement cutbacks and threatened to wreck the nation's airframe industry. It was a civilian decision that left the Strategic Air Command with a majority of its force grounded for lack...
...Teichiku Record Co. planned to bring out a disk entitled In the Rain at Amagi ("In the drizzling darkness of Amagi/Searchers call for the vanished two"), with a companion tune on the other side called Two Stars Over Amagi ("0 sad, the two lovers gone/Before the spring came") but, disturbed by accusations of "bad taste," decided against releasing the record. The Shin-Toho film studio has announced it has started production of a movie, Suicide on Mount Amagi, the story of the two young college students, with the first screening scheduled...
...make a big chunk of money for Fox in the future.Fox plans to convert a large part of its wide-open, 284-acre West Los Angeles production lot into a "Century City" with more than a score of skyscrapers and apartment towers. The project would eventually cost $300 million, bring a net income of as much as $36 million a year...