Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last resort, everything depended on the Prime Minister. He, deep down, could not bring himself to admit the independence of Free France. What was more, Mr. Churchill, each time we came into collision on account of the interests for which we were respectively responsible, treated our disagreement as a personal thing. He was hurt by it and grieved . . . This attitude of mind and sentiment, added to the devices of his political tactics, plunged him into fits of anger which gave our relationship some rude shocks. -Charles de Gaulle: The Call to Honor
Touch & Go. At war's end Smith returned to American, convinced that the great strides made during the war in air transport would bring on the air age and a huge new air-travel market. Just as he had worked with Douglas on the DC-3, he encouraged the firm to build the four-motored, long-range DC-6s, boldly ordered a fleet of 125 DC-6s and shortrange, two-engined Consolidated Vultee CV-240s. As usual, he showed himself a master at timing and bargaining. So eager was Consolidated (now Convair) for orders to relieve its postwar slump...
...bring Togetherness back to McCall's. Langlie hired as editor a man famed for his apartness: stormy, able Herb Mayes, 58, who was fired last month (TIME, Oct. 27) as editor of Hearst's rival Good Housekeeping (circ. 4,367,766). Mayes will bring along Good Housekeeping Managing Editor Margaret ("Maggie") Cousins as his second in command. Editor Mayes may find his hands full. The recession year has cost McCall's a 13.6% drop in ad sales for the first nine months, twice the average loss for the top 20 general magazines. One thing seems certain: after...
...expertly runs a rubber plantation in Malaya, not far from Singapore. He married her during a leave in the U.S. and loves her dearly, but while he sensibly oversees operations with a machine gun in hand, Patricia is convinced that love and decency are the real weapons needed to bring the Communist guerrillas to peace. When she practically adopts Ling, a Chinese Communist girl and a very nice dish, every male in the vicinity begins to go ting-a-ling, and Author Boulle has a field day trying to prove that men are men, women are women, and do-gooder...
...success of the experiment so far has derived from the benefits it produces to the schools as well as to the undergraduates. David Goldberg points out that an HUT can fill in the gaps in a teacher's knowledge and bring a fresh approach to the subject. New theories which an undergraduate is studying can be discussed with advanced students...