Word: brought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forbes' goal, made at 14:02 of the first period, opened the scoring for both teams. Second-line center Crocker Snow brought the puck down the ice, passing off to Forbes on his right. The wing's shot crossed in front of the Colby goalie and hit the lower left corner of the cage. Although the Crimson dominated the rest of the period, there was no more scoring by either team...
...Napoleon made his triumphant return from Egypt in 1799, and it was a key beachhead when the Allies landed on France's southern shore in 1944. The golden CÓte d'Azur begins at Fréjus' beach, and this year the dry summer had brought a record in tourists and a good wine crop. But for five days torrential rains had lashed the Riviera, and the lake behind the Malpasset Dam was ominously rising...
...United for once, the Conservative, Center, Liberal and Communist opposition in Parliament tossed out the Socialist tax bills. Premier Erlander then made it a vote of confidence. This put the Communists, on whose seven votes Socialists rely for an overall majority in both houses, on the spot. If they brought the Socialist government down they would be handing power to the Conservatives. Reluctantly, the Communists stridently denounced the 4% sales tax but abstained from voting against it. "If we had not made it a vote of confidence," sighed Socialist Premier Erlander ruefully, "we would have got nothing...
...Manchu dynasty, thick-spectacled Pu Yi reigned briefly as a child before losing his throne in China's 1911 republican revolution. Quarter-century later, the Japanese set him up as puppet Emperor of Manchukuo, but he again got the boot when World War II's end brought the defeat of his sponsors...
Margaretha Walk yesterday displayed an attractive and well-trained voice in the title role, and W. Clarke Hudson brought more than enough skill to the part of her would-be-detective spouse. Peter Brown was amusing in the mute role of the butler...