Word: bring
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...World War I. During World War II, the summer haze was beginning to sting the eyes and shroud the mountains that ring the city. By the mid-'50s, Los Angeles' smog, as the noxious vapor had been dubbed, was sufficiently thick and persistent to wilt crops, obstruct breathing and bring angry housewives into the streets waving placards and wearing gas masks. Oil companies were urged to cut sulfur emissions. Cars were required to use unleaded gas, and exhausts were fitted with catalytic converters. But as the city continued to grow unabated, so did its choking smog...
Athletes, of course, are hardly the only victims of a rapid and rapacious desire to bring icons down to size. Mike Tyson is merely learning lessons about the price of celebrity that Liz Taylor and Mick Jagger were forced to learn many years ago. Yet sportsmen belong to more innocent kids than do movie stars or musicians, and to adults who wish to be more innocent kids again. Tyson, moreover, appears in the ring for only a few minutes every few months, and Cabinet members work mostly behind closed doors; both are ultimately judged by professionals and peers. Boggs' skills...
...eating. That the fruit at the salad bar, the peach in Johnny's lunch box, the raspberries in the refrigerator, could be poisonous turned the world upside down. Could the stuff of vitamin C and Cezanne still lifes be hazardous? Was an apple a day more likely to bring the doctor than keep him away? What was the world coming...
...Firearms, had been alarmed by the increase in foreign imports of semiautomatics: from only 4,000 in 1986, requests jumped to 40,000 in 1987, to 44,000 in 1988. In just the first three months of this year, there were 113,732 requests from foreign importers to bring the weapons into the U.S. Two weeks ago, Higgins supplied William Bennett, the Administration's designated director of national drug policy, with the startling statistics...
Commonalities bring people together. It is a natural human tendency to associate with those with whom we share a common ground. Classical music brings musicians together to form orchestras. Political ideologies bring people to form Republican and Democratic organizations. And historical and cultural similarities and common political, educational and social needs bring minority students together to form minority groups...