Word: lets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy Under Secretary, to draft the "anonymous" letter charging the Air Force- baselessly, as Worth had admitted-with corruption in the procurement of the B-36 (TIME, Sept. 5). He had hoped, he said, to set off an investigation that would let the Navy explain its opposition to the whole unification...
...intention of giving up. He got Brownie from the U-Drive to run his campaign against the recall and issued new pronunciamentos. "Why do the politicians want me out of office?" bawled Mike. "Could it be that they are frightened at what I will uncover? Don't let them sway you with their distortions of [my] innocent mistakes...
...language was: "Oliver, we're getting along all right with the Americans, but the situation is ticklish and might come unstuck. Go over there and keep a sharp eye on things, keep in touch with the right people, keep selling the good old Empire-and don't let Bertie McCormick bite...
...reconcile these figures with the right ones. Franks smiled, went to work with his statisticians and devised an ingenious way of doing it. Having proved he could achieve this little triumph of twisted cunning, Franks burst out laughing. "That," said he, "is what I would call chicanery. Now let's get the real figures...
...surgeon and the son of a surgeon, Gibbon believes that there ought to be a way to relieve the heart of work during an operation on it. Not only would such a machine give the surgeon more time; it would also let him lift up the heart and cut into its main vessels, without causing a spurt of blood. This would enable him to see what needed to be done, instead of depending largely on feel. Some of Gibbon's colleagues agree that a mechanical heart would open "the last field of surgery...