Word: bring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scandalized his colleagues by resigning from his post and, imbued with fervor for Nazi Germany, trying to start a splinter fascist party in America. This failed, and in 1940 Johnson entered architecture school. He had backed into the profession as a critic, but in the process he had helped bring Mies van der Rohe to America and fought bravely to shift avant-garde taste in the direction of the same Utopian machine culture he would delight in poking fun at 40 years later. During his long association with the International Style, he built some of its canonical late buildings, notably...
Said Nancy Burch, director of the Salem Women's Crisis Center, which had urged Greta to bring the charges in the first place: "I feel terrifically saddened by the verdict and concerned about the future of women who have to live with marital violence daily." But other feminists were more optimistic. Despite the defeat, said Noreen Connell of the National Organization for Women, "the very fact that there has been such a case" means other married women will now be less hesitant to seek legal remedy if they are sexually assaulted by their husbands...
...Success liberated Orton's talent, and in the months before he was killed, his prodigious mind was bursting with what Lahr calls "gorgeous, wicked fun." What Orton might have accomplished remains a tantalizing conjecture. What he did achieve is clear enough, however, and perhaps Lahrs biography will bring him the American recognition he deserves but has never had, a memorial to the comic genius that was and might have been...
...tracked by an armada of instrument-laden ships, balloons and buoys, aircraft and weather satellites that feeds intelligence into a support force of computers. But this is a bloodless war. The only object is to study the foe: Asia's mighty monsoon, the great seasonal winds that annually bring life or death to hundreds of millions of people...
...take human lives as swollen rivers flood towns (this year's toll: at least 900 dead, 3 million homeless). Reversing themselves after an autumn lull, the winds return, this time from the northeast, carrying cool, relatively dry air. Building to gale force in northeast Asia, they sometimes bring frost to tropical Hong Kong. In Southeast Asia, after sweeping the sea, they bring vital rain...