Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon Howard's men had six articles ready to go. When the State Department sent what Howard thought was a "mealymouthed" protest to Red China's Mao Tse-tung, Howard let fly with his first salvo...
...Page One, Howard's New York World-Telegram demanded: "Mr. President, what are you going to do? Get him out or let him rot?" At President Truman's press conference, Merriman Smith, of the Scripps-Howard-controlled United Press, put the question: What about the imprisonment of Angus Ward? Said the President: an outrage. Then the State Department sent an appeal to 30 nations in Ward's behalf. A few days later Ward was free (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In a final cartoon, Scripps-Howard assigned the credit to public opinion, the force it had done much...
...South Bend, where Notre Dame's legendary Four Horsemen celebrated their 25th anniversary reunion, there was speculation about whether the 1949 Notre Dame's team was the best in the school's 62-year football history. "Let's say it's one of the greatest," said Horseman Elmer Layden, onetime fullback. But the 1949 entry made a good case for itself by crushing Southern California, 32-0, and stretching Notre Dame's unbeaten string to 37 games over four seasons...
...science, had been completely fooled by Scurry County. None of their blasts and echo-measurements had shown the existence of its oil-laden limestone reef some 6,500 ft. down. Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest oil leaseholder on the continent, had once held leases all over Scurry, but had let most of them lapse. Even the first wells drilled in what later proved to be the heart of the pool did not turn out well. Not until November 1948 did Standard of California's subsidiary, Standard of Texas, bring in its first big well to start the boom...
Anne kept Henry in suspense. "I beseech you now with all my heart," he formally wrote her, "definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us ... necessity compels me to plague you for a reply." He was ready to be Anne's alone, "casting off all others." Though he could never forget that he was King, and usually wrote with royal restraint, sometimes, during separations, he wrote her as warmly as any other 16th Century swain, e.g., ". . . Wishing myself (especially of an evening) in my sweetheart's arms, whose pretty duckies I trust...