Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned soft; the foreign-money markets knocked it down to 75? or worse. Reason: nobody knew how many fresh green millions Dictator Fulgencio Batista and his cronies had lugged away. Castro's government ordered all $500 and $1,000 bills turned in, decreed that visitors to Cuba could bring in no more than 50 pesos. Canadian Gold Broker John Rogers (TIME, Dec. 15) reported that a Miami lawyer, acting for a pro-Batista exile, was trying to convert 500,000 pesos into bullion...
...Metropolitan Opera was still clearly enemy territory, but flashy, highstrung Diva Maria Callas found somewhere to sing in Manhattan anyway. Delighted to have Maria under its wing, the imaginative American Opera Society, which specializes in concert versions of rare items, agreed to bring forth at Carnegie Hall a fine old showcase for her fiery talents (Bellini's Il Pirata), allowed Maria to bring along her own conductor, tenor, baritone. Success was assured. The stiff prices ($33 top) fazed few of her fans, who applauded the Callasthenics lustily, ahed her mad scene, stopped cheering only when a stagehand doused...
...total result of the press coverage was that the U.S. newspaper reader, depending on his paper to bring focus to a scene far beyond his own powers of definition, was left with a murky picture. The facts were all there-the drumhead justice, the full-length profiles of the dramatis personae in a national upheaval. The meaning was not. Publisher John S. Knight (Miami, Akron, Detroit, Charlotte) openly criticized both A.P. and U.P.I, for "obscure coverage." But the blame was wider and the problem deeper than the press services...
...Johnson, general news manager of U.P.I. "We know how many people went before the firing squads in Cuba, but this may not help an individual citizen make up his mind whether Cuba is better off under Castro than under Batista. We have got to find a way to bring in also a knowledge and an understanding of the news...
...humanly insurmountable . . . But it is no less true that a radically new climate has developed in the course of the last decades in the relations of the great Christian confessions among themselves." In the U.S., President Edwin T. Dahlberg of the National Council of Churches said: "Anything that would bring together all the churches of Christ would be blessed of God." But, he added, "it would have to be recognized that it was a mutual coming together, not under conditions laid down by one church for all the others...