Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After five weeks on the throne, King Gustaf VI of Sweden asked his parliament for a raise of $38,000 to bring his annual allowance up to $231,000, a middle bracket in the modern monarchical wage scale...
Unlike Gluck's Orfeo, Haydn's opera has an unhappy ending: Orfeo's beautiful singing is not enough to bring his Eurydice back from the dead; Orfeo himself is poisoned by the Bacchae. Enthusiastic Robbins Landon, who recorded Orfeo with singers, chorus and orchestra (cut to a Haydn-prescribed 40 pieces) of the Vienna State Opera, was ready to predict that "it will hold its own alongside [Mozart's] Don Giovanni. We don't believe in resuscitating something from the dead unless it's really a killer. And this...
...pilot needs to maneuver violently, he merely "overrides" the autopilot. When the crisis is past, the autopilot takes charge again. It will also "couple" to radio signals and bring the jet down safely to a fog-covered field...
...years has had his star employees explain the workings of Hawaiian Pineapple to their fellow workers (in Chinese, Japanese and English). This year he began flying his employees around the islands to see the different operations firsthand (TIME, April 24). The results were so successful that he decided to bring the employees to the mainland to tell the stockholders what they had learned...
...give you nine and ninety hours," said the Duke, "to find a thousand jewels and bring them here. When you return, the clocks must all be striking five...