Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Let loose remarks that fairly smoke...
...other hand, neither ideology nor double-talk was involved in Low's last successful attempt to get a reentry visa for Communist-controlled Rumania. Rumanian Premier Petru Groza would not see him and so, knowing that Groza fancied himself a tennis player second to no one, Low let it be known that back in the States he himself had been quite a tennist. Around midnight three nights later his telephone rang: the Premier would like to play; his car would be around at 6 o'clock in the morning...
Dean Acheson, brown-suited and carefully brushed, let photographers swirl and flash around him. Then for an hour he held forth. Quickly he read through the treaty's 14 articles. Essentially, the parties to the pact agreed that...
...Secretary of State could keep the Communists out, as the Communists had kept the Americans out of Russian territory. Or he could let them in, label them well and let them talk their heads off. He issued the visas-and a frosty statement that the U.S. "entertains no illusions as to the manner in which the Communists will attempt to use and manipulate the present conference...
Armed with a hot tip on number 2 and unable to watch from any place but the far turn, the two saw the horses toddic by into the stretch. They heard the following jockey repartee as the beasts passed by. "Hey, where's number 2? Let him through, let him through...