Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patton believed in God . . . [His] style was rough, but he combined idealism and realism. He talked to God as if he admired Him. He let God into his inmost secret heart, and recognized his own human frailty...
...what clean living and coordination do for you." With studied innocence, Tommy made a wild swing which the well coordinated chaplain easily ducked. "See?" said the chaplain. "Try again." Tommy almost turned himself inside out, missing with another swing. "Try once more," said the chaplain patronizingly. So Tommy let him have that...
That afternoon they got their first look at their old commander at a reception in the ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel. Other people clapped politely. The aging cutups of Battery D let out a roar...
...learned his production lessons early. Born in Minerva, Ohio, where his parents were schoolteachers, he had a childhood which many another boy would envy. The buff brick Wilson house was flanked by the homes of two locomotive engineers. They were his heroes who told him all about railroading and let him ride in their cabs...
...complaint charged other monopolistic practices: refusal by A.T. & T. to let outside manufacturers use alternative patents which Western Electric was not using; suppression of cheaper improvements that might cut A.T. & T.'s rate bases. Example: the hand telephone, developed in 1907, was not introduced as standard equipment until...