Word: brought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps had opened for the government with an able but unexciting defense of his devaluation of the pound. When his turn to speak came, Winston Churchill peered owlishly over his spectacles and said that the Labor government's policy and makeshift expedients had brought the nation close to bankruptcy. A Laborite heckled: "Sell your horse!" Churchill shot back: "I could sell him* for a great deal more than I paid for him, but I am trying to rise above the profit motive...
...Bevan's voice there were echoes of sad Welsh valleys as he said slowly: "I am a miner." Then, louder: "I was brought up in a mining family in a mining area and a steel area." Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated...
There were other attractions. For 25 lire, Communists could measure their strength by pulling a huge sickle which-when pulled hard enough-brought a huge hammer crashing down on the head of a fat capitalist dummy in frock coat and top hat. For less athletic comrades, Unità made its points more subtly, in exhibits of socio-political art and Russian literature. An elderly Russian woman in a lacy Ukrainian peasant blouse stood by the book exhibit. A young associate explained: "Mrs. Jakobs is here on purpose to translate the Russian writings into Italian for the comrades. If a comrade...
Some months ago the priest in Ixcateopan sent the National Museum a frayed and yellowed manuscript that had been brought to him by an Indian farmer whose family had preserved it through the centuries. It was signed by one of Cortes' companions, Padre Francisco Toribio de Benavente, whom the Indians had called Motolinia (the Poor Man), because of his strict asceticism...
...accomplish its mid-century task the [J.E.A. will make use of "all worthy and effective methods by which the Christian Gospel is brought to men." Among them: the training of an estimated two million laymen to go forth two-by-two ringing doorbells, special ministers' meetings in all important cities and communities, the organization of missions on college and senior high-school campuses, speeches and sermons by churchmen from other lands -England's Bishop Stephen Neill, China's T.Z. Koo, Mexico's Baez-Camargo, Scotland's J. Hutchison Cockburn, India's E. Stanley Jones...