Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McDonald. After seeing most of their postwar wage gains canceled out by price upcreep, rank -and-file steelworkers were wary of following McDonald into a strike for higher wages. But when industry negotiators started talking about changing work rules, steelworkers began heeding his warnings that the bosses wanted to bring back the bad old days of "industrial dictatorship" and "assembly-line slaves...
...final method of saving funds, House dining halls could be closed on Sunday mornings. The suggestion, however, that they be shut during an entire weekend penalizes the majority of students who remain in the Houses or bring dates for an inexpensive meal. The dining hall, in the last analysis, serves as the center of a House weekend, as the locations for dances and for dining...
...compact-car sales will probably come from an expansion of the market." But he is well aware that the compacts are bound to cut into sales of existing models. "If our Corvair moves some other cars off the road, well, that's too bad. But any time we bring out something that gets the focus of attention, it helps business. Anything that stimulates interest in autos is bound to stimulate the economy...
...Biscayne, and as much as $2,000 under the most expensive car in Chevy's line, the Impala. One thing that will help Chevy salesmen is the fact that the Corvair will have only a four-door, seating six passengers, at the start. Next January Cole plans to bring out a two-door hardtop with a stepped-up engine designed for the sports-car type. Eventually, he hopes to bring out a station wagon...
...charity case who, with many others, is supported by an international student association at a sanatorium called Les Alpes. Davenant hopes, as do all the patients, that Les Alpes is only an interlude, a place where bracing air, good food, and the wonders of modern medicine will bring back a normal life and freedom from the threat of relapse. Many of the patients are graduates of other sanatoria, and their hopes are tempered by former failures. To a newcomer like Davenant, the experience is a trial that maltreats his body and corrodes his spirit...