Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctrine that held that the Government should be something like a modern, bureaucratic Great White Father to all its peoples. Government was expected not only to protect the helpless, but also to make full employment, regulate business and let labor run on a minimum of regulation. It was a doctrine that meant guaranteed security-for the farmer and the worker, and for the old and the sick. In 1948, the U.S. wanted a man who believed in that doctrine. It rejected the party-the Republican Party-which it suspected of wanting to change...
...chapel, Hirota heard the cries. "What is that?" he asked. "Manzai?" (Manzai is the word for "comedy.") "Ah, banzai; I understand. Let us do it, too." The banzais of the three echoed out to the four in the courtyard...
...woman screamed that someone had stolen her demijohn. When police went aboard the Marlin, they uncovered hams, butter, soap, cloth, shoes and other contraband. Goods and traffickers were hustled off to the hoosegow. The women pleaded Martinique's hunger, and the police relented. Late in the day they let the Marlin sail, with a warning that next time things would go harder...
...Taken an Oath." He was led out. On a lower floor a small army of newsmen, photographers and radiomen waited to hear the grand jury's decision. Hours later, the jurors emerged, filed into elevators which took them down to the courtroom of Judge John Clancy. Reporters were let in to hear the report...
...Cleveland, the season's smallest crowd (22,981) braved another snowfall to watch the Buffalo Bills battle the Cleveland Browns for the All-America Football Conference championship. It wasn't much of a battle. Coach Paul Brown's Browns didn't let a little snow get in the way of their march to an undefeated season. The Buffalo Bills were understandably reluctant to get in the way of 238-lb. Negro Fullback Marion Motley, hardest running back in pro football since Bronco Nagurski. Motley didn't get warmed up until the second half. Then...