Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly session to take up a family tragedy. For 28 months, said Hernan Santa Cruz, young Alvaro Cruz, son of a former Chilean ambassador at Moscow, had been trying to take his Russian-born wife back to Chile (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). The Russians had stubbornly refused to let her leave. Close to a thousand U.S., British and French husbands who had married Russian girls, said Santa Cruz, were in the same predicament. The Soviet decree forbidding Russian women married to foreigners to leave the country was a moral outrage...
...Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...
...Let's Be Happy." When the audience burst into applause, Koussy seemed for a long moment unaware of the clapping; he was nodding his grey head and smiling to his musicians in appreciation. Then he turned and gravely faced the audience. Ten minutes and five curtain calls later, he quieted them for some words. Said he, so softly that some in the back could hardly hear: "I knew it would be hard to separate myself from you, my public, and my dear orchestra. But let's be happy that we have had 25 years together. Let...
...North Carolina legislature has upped its contribution too. Last year, they supported Ben's orchestra to the tune of $12,000 (to let the legislators hear what they're voting for, he takes the orchestra onto the floor of the state capitol at Raleigh every year for an evening concert). Last week, they voted him $15,000 to carry on next year...
Flanked by Lady Beecham, he turned up at a reception, received a 15-lb. cake from the U.S.'s RCA Victor, replied to a toast by apologizing for not having anything cutting to say ("It is only before vast audiences that I let myself...