Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheep was back from his retreat on the Caribbean isle of Bimini, ready and anxious to rejoin the fold. For five hours, the House debated the issue of reseating Powell, airing in the process nearly all his public and private transgressions. Then its members voted 251 to 160 to let Powell take his seat. From the rear of the chamber, where he had been waiting during the debate, Powell strode forward to take the oath from John McCormack...
...Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and head of the special investigatory body that aired Powell's linen two years ago. "Any additional punishment would be vindictive," cried Celler. "It would be Draconian." He challenged the House: "He who is without sin in this chamber, let him cast the first stone. Judge not lest you be judged-particularly with reference to dear ones on the payroll." That capacious euphemism stirred many of Celler's colleagues to private ire but public charity...
...Actual Bench. However, Nixon's friends were not about to let him forget the lumps in his football record. First came Wallace J. "Chief" Newman, a full-blooded Shoshonean Indian who coached 155-lb. Tackle Nixon in 1933. Presenting Nixon with his first varsity letter, Newman explained: "The reason we waited so long was that we wanted him to get over his bruises." Then, to provide the proper setting for photographers, some 30 of Nixon's teammates carried out the "actual bench" on which the most successful second-stringer in Whittier's history sat out most games...
...judge to be formally installed in office. Griffin McLaurin, a black constable in Tchula, Miss., has a problem with the white justice of the peace in his district. Says McLaurin: "When I bring someone in on a traffic charge, if it's a white man, he'll let him go. But if it's a Negro, he'll fine...
...Americans drank cold tea near the helicopters that had brought them. Finally, the Communist representatives produced the American prisoners-Pfc. Donald G. Smith, SP4 Thomas N. Jones, and SP4 James W. Brigham, all 21. After a short Viet Cong propaganda speech (during which Smith mumbled, "By God, let's get all this over with and get out of here"), the Americans issued the Communists a receipt for the prisoners and whisked them off by helicopter. The three had been in enemy hands for periods ranging from four to eight months. They said that they had been reasonably well treated...