Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fleet passed into the Bay of Bengal and attracted much media attention. Were we threatening India? Were we seeking to defend East Pakistan? Had we lost our minds? It was in fact sober calculation. We had some 72 hours to bring the war to a conclusion before West Pakistan would be swept into the maelstrom. It would take India that long to shift its forces. We had to give the Soviets a warning. We had to be ready to back up the Chinese if they came in. Moving the task force into the Bay of Bengal created precisely the margin...
Unfortunately Bellon vitiates the intensity by allowing the rest of her film to deteriorate into a series of rigid and predictable scenes: the deeply wounded victim refusing at first to bring charges; her boyfriend reacting with outrage but with a lack of true understanding; the community half suspecting that the victim may have done something to provoke the crime; the rapists, when they are finally brought to trial, insisting that they were indeed enticed into their act; the woman, supported only by a friend, forced to relive the most ghastly moments of her life in testimony and in re-enactment...
...gyrations too. Though investors by the thousands routinely speculate on possible price movements of the yellow metal by buying and selling so-called futures contracts on commodities markets, trading in the actual gold itself is much more limited, and a mere handful of big investors can and do bring about significant changes in price. In just four weeks, gold leaped from $330 per oz. to hit $447, only to lose half that impressive gain by the end of last week. Anyone who plunged in for a quick killing at the wrong moment got badly hurt. Small investors in gold also...
...strength is throwing the ball," Rstic said. "I was hoping to get some running going with Mike and then bring in Joe to work out of the shotgun if we needed the passing. Our plan was to combine both. But when you lose another quarterback, you have to go with what you can. Where do you go from there? I don't know...
...cheerleaders are reacting against the expanding presence of feminism at Harvard. Women's issues are no longer the sole concern of a "feminist clique," she believes and some people, threatened by more widespread acceptance of feminism, "are in retreat." She adds, "Having women go back to cheerleading will not bring back the good old days...