Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communists at Home. It was nine months since Tito had been formally declared a heretic by Moscow for refusing to let Russia exploit his country's economy, to let Russian secret police spy on his own secret police. The world had largely believed that it would be a matter of weeks before Tito recanted or was liquidated. Last week, Tito was still in full control of his party, his army and his police force...
...U.S.S.R.'s blockade, but most were still eating better than their Russian comrades. The West was quietly giving Tito limited economic assistance. A French trade delegation arrived in Belgrade last week, joining U.S. and British engineers who are helping Tito build some steel plants. The U.S. State Department let it be known that Yugoslavia fitted into "the general picture" of American trade...
There has been the same fatalistic reaction to the news that a Communist assault-or perhaps merely a peaceful occupation-might be imminent. Said a cobbler in the Fu Tze-miao, Nanking's chief bazaar: "The war is lost. Let them come. Shuikuan [Who cares...
...What we have to search for," Peró concluded, "is the well-proportioned man." The implication was obvious: let the world take a good look at the well-proportioned Peronista...
Milliner Lilly Daché arrived in Manhattan with the breathless news that the women of Paris are less interested in hats than in men. The three males who crop up most in conversation when smart Parisiennes let their hair down: World Citizen Garry Davis (admired for his "courage and . . . youthful hope"), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre (for his "unsweetened approach to modern life") and British Cinemactor James Mason ("He is just the 150% man, with ego, contrariness, even cruelty...