Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Chinese claims bring only sniggers in the West. Rowing times, for example, are meaningless because wind and water conditions vary so widely from course to course. But Britain's Runner Sylvia Cheeseman, one of the few Western athletes to have seen the Red Chinese in training, came back from a trip behind the Bamboo Curtain convinced that Mao's big-brotherly encouragement to sport is no joke. "The coaches have to stop the athletes from killing themselves with overwork," she says. "The Chinese will be among the top three or four nations in sport in the next...
...other hand, it is possible for previously unknown and yet genuine sayings of Jesus to be found in other documents which are not in the canon, sayings which, even when they bring no fundamentally new revelation, are capable of enriching and furthering our understanding of the canonical gospel...
Last week Fabiani, still presenting his usual weekly wrestling programs, proudly announced plans to bring an impressive roster of Metropolitan Opera stars to Philadelphia next season for opera performances. In his long career, 59-year-old Promoter Fabiani has also treated Philadelphians to professional tennis tournaments, midget auto racing, ice revues, plus such middlebrow musical fare as Mantovani's lush strings. With profits from these enterprises, he has given Philadelphia a new opera company, the Lyric, lured big-name singers with fat fees ($6.500 per recital for Tebaldi...
...which the hero fought was a woman; but in the end he often did not claim her at all, or if he did, what he got was a sexless ninny. Yet in many of the recent westerns, the woman is far less passive. She is continually attempting to bring the hero down to earth, to make him face reality. She is behaving like a real woman, "and the hero, as a result, begins to lose his superhuman disinterestedness and sexlessness, begins to behave like a real...
...Evil, it seems, are beginning to understand each other, to be reconciled to each other's existence. Often in the modern western a sudden sympathy flashes between hero and villain, as though somehow they feel themselves to be secret sharers in a larger identity. Often the hero cannot bring himself to kill the villain until fate forces his hand, and then he performs the act almost like a religious sacrifice (Shane...