Word: brought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glibly easy to nominate Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill or Stalin. But it was Lenin who started the main current of events which in one way or another brought out the greatness in these men . . . The acknowledgement should go to the man who started it all, Lenin, damn...
...Harris let Johnson continue. "The reason I didn't see him again was because at the national committee meeting at which Harry Bridges was introduced . . Jack Stachel [one of the eleven convicted U.S. Communist leaders] said to the meeting that in the future Harry Bridges would not be brought to committee meetings for security reasons . . ." i.e., so that he could continue his West Coast labor work unhampered by the Communist label...
...chief, it had been quite a lifetime. He had thrived on catastrophe, some of which he had brought about himself, had outlived a dozen comrades, some of whom had died by his order. Despite divisions in his dominions and despite his advancing years, Septuagenarian Joe Stalin was still going strong...
...Kremlin, Mao presumably congratulated Stalin on his birthday. Nationalist Chinese sources reported that he had brought along 15 carloads of gifts, including rare art and historical treasures from Peking's palaces and museums. But the two leaders undoubtedly had more important business to transact; it seemed likely that they would forge treaties of friendship, alliance and trade, and prepare fresh blows at the soft underbelly of the non-Communist world in East Asia...
After four years in British custody without trial, Manstein was finally brought before a British military tribunal in Hamburg last August. Britons raised a ?1,620 fund to help pay for his defense; Winston Churchill contributed...