Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mothers the evil of our abnormal ways in desiring anesthesia with childbirth! Surely we will love the old molar more if, while it is being yanked out, we are permitted to grit the others in full consciousness, and then perhaps hold it tenderly in our palm. Come now, let us have Dentistry Without Fear-and, TIME, please don't soften us with that old propaganda that pain really hurts...
Harry Truman missed no chance to let the boys know that bygones were bygones. Displaying some herniated Latin at a dinner for Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Truman mentioned the old Roman cry: "Delenda est Carthago!" (Carthage must be destroyed). Some Senators had cried "Delenda est Trumano!"-said the President, but "I am happy to say that I have no ill feeling towards those gentlemen who would like to have delenda...
...seek nothing from Russia but good will and fair play. If, however, there is to be a war of nerves, let us make sure that our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts . . . Let us then move forward together in discharge of our mission and our duty, fearing God-and nothing else...
...surprised," De Gaulle said, "that none of you ask me about Marshal Petain. Let me talk to you about him ... It was necessary to condemn him, because his person symbolized capitulation . . . But today there only remains an old man in a fortress who once rendered great services to France. Is he to be allowed to die without again seeing a tree, a flower, or a friend?" Petain, De Gaulle thought, should be the first to be released...
...shareholders are a far more exclusive group than its clientele; outside the families of the founder and of the longtime partners, there are only about 200 stockholders, who now own close to 50% of the 12,000 seldom-traded shares. Last week Tiffany's got ready to let more of the public in. At their annual meeting, stockholders voted to split the stock (currently quoted in over-the-counter trading at $600 to $650) 16 for 1. Tiffany's shares, which paid $35 in dividends last year, were split once before...