Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplies for a 30-day period, while the committee reaches an agreement on the withdrawal of foreign fighters from both sides. Last week France, anxious to stay on the right side of Britain and thus prevent Dictator Mussolini from driving his desired wedge between France and Great Britain, let it be known that she would accept the British proposals. This temporarily stalled off things, giving Britain another week to hope that a solution to the dilemma might come from the Spanish battlefields...
...comfort of daily visits from his blonde, 34-year-old fiancee, Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, whose talent for fine music was Schuschnigg's solace following the death of his wife in a motor crash three years ago. But he has few other liberties. "How could we let Schuschnigg go free now?" reasoned solicitous Nazi officials. "He probably would not be able to walk the streets for a minute without being attacked by a furious crowd. The world would then say the Nazis killed...
Underdog Kainrath, Chicago team captain and a violinist in his spare time, did not let his townsmen down. With grim determination, he made the bantamweight match the most exciting of the evening. Ducking Sergo's wild swings and peppering him with well-timed punches and counterpunches, Chicago's Kainrath clearly won all three rounds...
...false identity as a German deserter. Gradually, as one soldier after another was shocked at the injustice, his case became the centre of a major conflict. A sergeant tried to save him, then a lieutenant, finally a general. They compromised their army careers, suffered the constant temptation to let the whole affair go. When millions of men were dying, what difference did the death of one more make...
...thoughts. Dumoulin secretly tried it on his wife, unearthed a startling hodgepodge of sentimental memories of an early lover, resentment against himself. But when he taxed her about it, she used the machine on him, found him dreaming about a pretty student. With Gallic good sense they decided to let the machine alone, while promoters got hold of it, did a roaring business with jealous husbands, suspicious partners. Frenchmen stopped buying it first, said it was good only for Anglo-Saxons. But even Anglo-Saxons soon got tired of secret thoughts; and when politicians turned against it, a few people...