Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not have been enough to win, though, if the Yardlings had been able to gain six more yards at the right times. Twice they had the ball inside Princeton's ten yard line, once with first down and one foot to go, and both times they failed to bring it across...
...finally, with all other Americans, strive to bring a just and lasting peace to the world...
...Calls Cairo Monty won at El Alamein, even though the Afrika Korps knew his battle plan; the wicked Gestapo had branded it a plant. In The Green Devils of Monte Cassino the Germans held the abbey five months against heavy Allied attacks because their parachutists needed that time to bring its art treasures to the safety of the Vatican. In U-47, dashing Submariner Günther Prien plunks his torpedoes into the British battleship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow, but when his deck officer shouts "Hurrah!", whispers: "Shut up; 2,000 men have just died aboard that ship...
...troops to work, shoveling garbage from Rangoon's filthy streets, cleaning the boulevards, repairing water pipes, filling in potholed roads. Old residents were amazed that suddenly the streets were no longer filled with prowling packs of wild dogs and the usual flocks of scavenger birds. To help bring down the soaring cost of living, General Ne Win ordered Burma's navy to divert its patrol boats from their coastal duties and send them out as a fishing fleet...
Producer Gurian, 45, rests his return to the boondocks-once teeming with such performers as Maude Adams and Edwin Booth-on a tripod of reasons: "It's practical; it's economical; and it's romantic." Some time next year, the Gurians will bring their play to the radioactive sidewalks of New York, but by then, they will be able to view critical reaction philosophically. "A moderately good show might flop in New York," muses Manning, "but it might entertain the nation...