Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was still so much confusion as to the nationality of the land, he would declare it "Sooi" soil until the bosses in Brussels and The Hague straightened things out. To stir the authorities, he put up posters saying, "Are Belgians Afraid of the Dutch?" When that did not bring results, he cut down three "Sooi" trees and barricaded the road with their trunks. When Dutch police arrived on bicycles to clear the road, they had to fight off Sooi's bloodhounds...
...Castro offered conflicting reasons why elections must wait up to four years: "An election now would just be a plebiscite for us," but also "old electoral vices could bring tyranny and oligarchy back...
...they cannot sell to the U.S. For example, Germany dominates the radio-set market in Ecuador because her makers produce a compact, high-quality, inexpensive multiple-short-wave set; it sells well in a country where much of the listening is to foreign stations. Comparably priced U.S.-made sets bring in only nearby stations, have only a limited market. U.S. businessmen find it hard to obtain Government help in export financing when private capital is not available. John Lawrence, executive vice president of Dallas' Dresser Industries (oil drilling equipment), complains that while Washington is studying an export application, Italian...
...International) is easily the peep-showiest, cheap-thrillingest of all the Brigitte Bardot pictures-and probably the best. Topnotch Whodunit Writer Georges Simenon furnished the novel (En Cas de Malheur) on which the film is based. Jean Gabin was hired to top the title. Actress Bardot was signed to bring up the rear in the box-office battle. And the slickest of the big French directors, Claude Autant-Lara (Devil in the Flesh, Rouge et Noir), has contrived to combine all these expensive, volatile elements into a smutty story that is technically very well told...
Fortunately, the growth of science and technology--"this massive and decisive fact"--serves to bring nations together, while additional motivation, he said, lies in the great necessity for cooperation in space exploration...