Word: lets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...academic freedom in particular, and freedom of speech in general, are taking a bad beating because of the current wave of anti-communist hysteria, Dean Bender's strong re-affirmation of faith in the free exchange of ideas is a welcome reassurance that there are those who will not let themselves be brow-beaten by J. Parnell Thomas--or Fulton Lewis...
Scrambling wildly for safety, Administration leaders threw up one compromise after another. As the bill reached the House floor, Housing Expediter Tighe Woods tactfully let it be known that he was planning to take controls off rents in more than 100 rural and small-town areas. Then the Administration accepted an amendment guaranteeing "reasonable" returns to landlords...
...final result was that each nation agreed to cut its dollar imports further, but would judge for itself how much to cut. This was billed as a compromise, but actually it was a victory for Cripps. For the next year or two, OEEC would let each nation seek recovery in its own way; in Britain's case that would mean continued efforts toward relative national self-sufficiency. That was what Cripps, the prudent husband, had been plugging for all along...
...members who serve as volunteers, somewhat as do the members of U.S. draft boards. Bevan insisted, in opposition to some of his Socialist colleagues, that the boards remain nonpolitical, i.e., that Conservatives may serve on them. "We have taken money out of medicine," he said. "I will not let politics take hold." British hospitals, virtually all taken over by the Ministry, are run by special hospital boards, usually composed of the same officials who ran them before. In the whole British health service today there are about 10,000 voluntary administrative workers; Bevan's Health Ministry itself gets along...
...have the right to reassign patients if one doctor gets too heavily loaded. If their area is short of doctors, they have the right to keep a physician who wants to move away, from doing so. On the other hand, if their area is "overdoctored," they may refuse to let new doctors move in to practice under the health plan...