Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silence & Her Sister. Once invested as Premier, De Gaulle had three immediate objectives: to bring the army back under control of the central government, to win approval of a constitution that would give France a strong executive, to come to terms with the French colonies' desire for independence without sacrificing a French relationship with them. To achieve these goals, he proceeded to employ his resources (which now included unchallenged legitimacy) according to the rules he had laid down in The Sword's Edge?"economy of force, the necessity of advancing in strength (and, hence, by stages or bounds), surprise...
...tough 1959 budget that will halve the deficit by hiking taxes and cutting "social expenditures" (price supports, veterans' pensions, etc.). His drastic action should bring some order to France's tangled finances, at the same time provide funds for massive public investment in both France and Algeria. He promised nothing but a time of trials, but added that "without the effort to restore order," France would be a nation "perpetually oscillating between drama and mediocrity." De Gaulle, who dislikes economics so much, had this time shown himself willing to take it seriously...
...Biblical Playing Cards-"bring romance and color of the Bible to the card pack. Old Testament personalities substitute for Kings. Queens. Jacks." Price...
...obviously in puppy love with the colonel. What is more, Caniff realized with a start last summer that Poteet was getting too big for her skin-tight blue-jean britches. Says he: "She was becoming increasingly curved in all the right places." Playing it safe, Caniff will never bring Poteet back as a wide-eyed kid in a cowboy hat. When she does reappear some time next year, Poteet will be hovering on the edge of womanhood. Cartoonist Caniff is even now pondering his next problem: Should grown-up Poteet make a grown-up play for Steve...
Socratic Method. In Manhattan, a judge kept silencing Assistant District Attorney Burton Roberts' attempts to interrupt Defense Attorney Horacio Quinones, but recessed the court when Roberts finally broke in to say: "I'm sorry, Your Honor, but in the interest of public health and justice, I must bring to the court's attention the fact that Mr. Quinones has just drunk a glass of Epsom salts in which I was bathing my finger...