Word: let
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...ideal professor of poetry does a good deal to promote young poets at the university," said Lansdale. She noted that while Auden served as university poet, he held periodic office hours in a popular cafe and let aspiring young Oxford poets show him their work...
...Super Bowl press box, a writer let out a small whoop as the Raiders blocked a Redskin punt in 1984. "I'm sorry, that was really unprofessional," he said sheepishly. "But I've got $2,000 on the Raiders." Win or lose, does the two grand get into the story, affect the quality of the praise, increase the vitriol in the criticism? What...
...countries endorsed "the right of peoples to self- determination." For the Soviets that code phrase amounted to a virtual renunciation of the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, the justification for the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Joked Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov: "Now we have the Frank Sinatra doctrine -- let them do it their...
...Carnegie recommendations add up to a middle school that is part classroom and part social-welfare agency, a combination that is bound to make some educators uneasy. "Middle school administrators have got their hands full just trying to educate kids, let alone creating warm, caring environments," says Samuel Sava, executive director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals...
...words added by Roy Medvedev to his Let History Judge, first published in the West in 1971, deepen a portrait of a monster...