Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after plane, day after day, week after week after week. Maybe he would then get the true picture and realize that he could stop the suffering with the stroke of a pen. Perhaps then this realization would prompt him to do what he should have done long ago: to bring all the troops home now, STEPHEN M. SNOW Salt Lake City...
...believe this is a practical way. We would like to have frank negotiations to settle the war, which will bring a solution to the conflict as a whole. A cease-fire is only the beginning step which leads to a real cessation of hostilities. We must not fall into their trap to have a cease-fire in advance of a solution of the overall war. The Communists will exploit the ceasefire to strengthen their forces, to promote the war. Instead of ending the war, you prolong...
...poor blacks and Puerto Ricans, by youngish singles. Elsewhere in the vast, often dreary reaches of the boroughs, middle-class and working-class families predominate. A transit stoppage or a heavy snowstorm that is a minor bother or even a chance for bravado and gallantry in Manhattan can bring near paralysis in some of the outlying sections...
...they occupy one-and two-family row houses or ranks of monotonously alike apartment buildings, working-class families take pride in an orderly environment. They readily feel threatened by population shifts that change the makeup of their schools, road projects that cut up their neighborhoods, public housing projects that bring in welfare recipients. Like any citizens, they would like more and better amenities and services: a new school, park or playground, better transportation, sewage or public health facilities. But it is in Harlem that a large, new hospital just opened. It is programs aimed at helping blacks and Puerto Ricans...
Quickly, the Communists moved to curb inflation, suppress bandits and warlords, rehabilitate industry and the transportation network, equalize food distribution, establish a tax system and bring the people rudimentary health care. For the first time in anyone's memory, an efficient, honest administration was in charge-though it could also be ruthless and even inhuman in its desire to impose unity on the land. By 1952, Mao had used persuasion and purge to consolidate his power, and China was ready to transform its economy...