Word: lets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Let Reader Kelly swallow her doubts, remember that the truth often makes better reading than fiction...
...cabled this information to Mr. Müller, and asked him to let us know how everything went. His reply thanked us for our trouble and said that his wife and child would soon be on their way to the Azores. He added...
...Senators shifted uneasily. Like the Westchester delegates, the Senate had a petition of its own, signed by 57 Senators of both parties. It urged passage of a resolution to direct the President to cut 5 to 10% off appropriations finally voted by Congress. But such a let-Harry-do-it approach was just what ex-Mayor McLaughlin was talking about. Despite all the loud congressional forensics, Congress seemed unwilling or unable to practice what it preached. It had no help from the President, who had called for a record budget (see box), though traditionally it is his responsibility to preserve...
Then the Illinois State Legislature's Broyles Commission, which had been investigating both the University of Chicago and Roosevelt College, let go with the loudest blast of all. It called for the expulsion of any student who might refuse to state whether or not he was a Communist, any teacher who would not resign from a Communist or Communist-front organization. It also recommended that colleges which tolerate "subversive" groups on campus should lose their tax exemption...
...British bombers could be put to work on them. Admiral Sir John Tovey, commander of the Home Fleet, ordered every available ship deployed to bring them to battle. Then, on the evening of May 23, as the cruiser Suffolk hugged the mist between Iceland and Greenland, Able Seaman Newell let out a hail from, starboard. There, 14,000 yards away, were the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen. The Suffolk ducked back into the fog in a hurry (the Bismarck's guns had a range of 40,000 yards), then gingerly shadowed the big ship by radar through the night...