Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month, der Alte had received at least two letters from President Eisenhower, one from Premier Khrushchev and several from President de Gaulle, and hugged them to himself. He treated Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano highhandedly, ordering him to draft communications, then editing and sending them off without bothering to let Brentano know the final results. While the Foreign Office remained ignorant, one man continued to share the Chancellor's secrets: State Secretary Hans Globke, the indispensable confidential clerk who-his enemies never let him forget-25 years ago wrote the official commentary on the Nazis' racial laws. Last...
...braid and epaulets, the Governor of Kenya rose in Nairobi's Legislative Council to deliver his maiden address. "There is a new government in England with a new Colonial Secretary, and a new Governor of Kenya," said Sir Patrick Renison. "In a glowing spirit of challenge and adventure, let us put the darkness behind us and look bravely to the future...
...second ring from his pocket. The crowd broke into ululations of "Salavat!" Someone shouted for Mahmud to sing a song, and he obliged. A peasant stepped forward, cried: "I am from Kuchesfahan. I don't know this man and don't know why they are hanging him. Let them hang me in his stead." Others cried: "He is young-have pity!" and "Let him live...
...Candidate Pajo suggested that a good many Filipinos had had their fill of Carlos Garcia, the Nacionalista Party as a whole had apparently profited from one cynical popular argument: "The mosquitoes inside the mosquito net have grown fat sucking your blood, and maybe they'll be satisfied. Why let in fresh, hungry ones...
...adapting Cervantes' work for last week's Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS), TV Writer Dale Wasserman caught the tragic essence of Don Quixote's comic role. In a tricky but effective device, he fused author and hero into one character, and let both proclaim: "To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, and never to stop dreaming or fighting-this is man's privilege and the only life worth living." Viewers and critics inclined to snicker at such idealism missed the point of a fine TV drama whose central theme...