Word: lets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the radio blared in the ward all day, because my exam was over, and because it was almost time for the weekend, I wanted to leave, and pretty soon they let me. I wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't had an exam and had stayed in bed to begin with...
...Malenkov arrived at a U.S. unemployed total of 14 million). Russia, on the other hand, is surrounded by friendly neighbors* and, since the West's fiasco in China, the number of people in the Soviet orbit now amounts to 800 million. "We do not want war," cried Malenkov. "Let no one imagine, however, that we are intimidated . . . The Soviet government possesses the atomic weapon...
...Let us imitate General Perón, the Teacher No. 1 of the new Argentine School...
Whatever the ancient Greeks may have thought, life among the gods up there on Olympus wasn't always a bowl of nectar. Take the case of Venus, or let Author Erskine take it. Her mother-in-law Juno was a suspicious, embittered shrew. Sister-in-law Minerva, an athletic type, tried to knife her as soon as her back was turned...
...Sugarwater," says a "Toulouse-Lautrec lady" to a "demure garden statue" in the latest book by Ludwig Bemelmans, "let Champagne show you how it's done...