Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight it out to the bitter end, all summer and all winter if necessary." To his Rhode Island constituents, Senator McGrath declared: "Maybe you won't get all the housing or economic welfare you want. But if these things must wait upon human values then I say, 'Let them wait.'" This week the filibuster began. Georgia's respected Walter George got to his feet first. He had plenty of Southern gentlemen beside him, ready to talk on when he tired...
Though his patience was often tried to the breaking point, debonair, dignified District Judge Harold Medina let them go their long-winded way. But last week, with something of the air of a sleepless man shouting at 3 o'clock revelers, the judge finally called a halt...
...hysteria which the American press has done so much to stir up." Tired and testy, she finally shut off discussion: "Nobody in Russia has mistreated me the way you reporters have tonight." But next day, after the special Grand Jury (which is investigating espionage in the U.S.) let her off after only 30 minutes of preliminary questioning, Anna warmed up a little. To reporters, she elaborated...
...furs and jewels, and kept mistresses on both coasts and "was said to resemble Ronald Colman" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the News, they read all about a tenacious housewife whose 2-YEAR, $7,000 HUNT FINDS LOST HUSBAND-and who obviously did not intend to let him get away again...
...various trusts permitted Textron to take out assets, replace them with others of less value. Example: Rayon Foundation Trust let Textron take $200,000 worth of stock, paying 10% dividends, replace it with stock paying 5% or less. The trustees also sold stock to friends and associates, at less than the trust had paid for them...