Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season when economic and political pundits are working over the faults and weaknesses of the U.S., a TIME correspondent drove into California's San Joaquin Valley to bring up to date a story of fault and weakness that fascinated the pundits 25 years ago. His question: Whatever happened to the Okies-the thousands of desperate farm families that fled drought and Depression and swarmed into California in the 1930s? The answer turned out to be a story of adversity that turned to strength for both a migrant people and a region of fabulous fertility. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Harvesters...
...missilery, posed the U.S. with the most dramatic military threat it had ever faced. And with the Vanguard's witlessly ballyhooed crash at Cape Canaveral went the U.S.'s long-held tenet that anything Communism's driven men could do, free men could do better. Whatever the future might bring, in 1957 the U.S. had been challenged and bested in the very area of technological achievement that had made it the world's greatest power...
Honored Ancestors. The party called a mass meeting of a thousand writers to bring Liu to his senses. He was accused of "ingratitude to the party" and of biting the hand that fed him. "How could Liu Shao Tang, a young man brought up in the new society all the way, and educated by the Communist Party, nevertheless degenerate to such an extent?" cried one party leader. The writers' conclusion: class origin. Said a party spokesman with obvious relief: "Liu was raised in a rotten landlord family; his mind was inscribed with words like 'Bring honor to your...
...winter of 1956 that a distinguished educator from St. Louis had bought up the campus of the defunct Chillicothe Business College and was about to open a full-fledged university, the whole town of Chillicothe. Mo. (pop. 9,850) was delighted at the thought of the prestige it would bring. The university's founder-president, the Rev. Clyde Belin. B.B.A.. Th.B.. Th.M., Th.D.. Ph.D., was a scholarly, dedicated-looking gentleman. His plans for setting up a liberal arts college, a Bible college, a college of engineering, and schools of home economics, business, agriculture, journalism...
...Stop and Go, the Detour and Closed for Repairs signs of musicomedy collaborations. Boasting a brisk production, and in Robert Preston a delightful star, this 1912 tale of an itinerant con man, a musical ignoramus who invades an Iowa town posing as a bandleader, has unrationed, oldfashioned, bring-the-whole-family high spirits...