Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Churchill got in his innings with a blistering 40-minute attack in which he said: "There was the old Gladstonian expression, 'Let the money fructify in the pockets of the people.' That is regarded [by the government] as a monstrous device of a decadent capitalist system...
Next night, as their 90-match tour began before 13,357 fans in Madison Square Garden, Pancho got his first workout as a pro. He rocked back and let go with his big weapon-a hard, high-twisting serve. Kramer, tense and continually wiping the palm of his racket hand between shots, fired Pancho's big serves right back and won the opening game. Then Pancho broke Kramer's equally big and more accurate serve...
...show was intended to represent solutions to "the problem of adequately-or gloriously-commemorating the sacrifice of those soldiers and sailors who died in battle." The question was: Were its solutions adequate, let alone glorious...
...said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so."-Genesis...
...taking advantage of the unusually liberal Rutgers policy in such financial matters, he might have claimed all the proceeds of his discovery and become a millionaire. But he turned over his royalty rights to the Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation with the mild observation: "Rutgers won't let me starve...