Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What we need to say, as American people, and say in unmistakable terms, is that we are right.We must tell the Russians why we cannot surrender Berlin. Let us not talk about standing firm, and then in mushy, soft words say that on some basis-somewhere, somehow-we will do something other than stand fast...
...account will we agree to discuss the reunification of Germany." Khrushchev trumpeted. "Let the Germans themselves sit at a round table and solve this problem." Scornfully, he pooh-poohed the Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference on Germany proposed by the West-Gromyko would be too busy. Added Khrushchev: "It is well known that when people want to shelve a problem, it is drowned in endless verbiage from which, as from a swampy marsh, there is no exit." If the West really wanted a solution, it would have to agree to a summit conference, whose subject matter would be limited...
Frank: "I mean that you are a pure example as something discovered in Greece 2,000 years ago. There's freedom, a freshness, a spontaneity. Is it just a complete and artful acceptance of your own femininity? Let's say you've just come into a room...
...milk, eat and harness up, so they could get into the fields by 5:30. The cheerless life in Widower North's house still troubles Warren North: "We never even had a Christmas tree." By 1930 the father saw the way clear to let Warren's twin sister Wanda go off to teachers college. Warren himself was ready to go away in three months, study the organ for a term, then enter engineering school the following fall...
...century is the 19th, and the remarkable Mr. P., a prominent Pennsylvania manufacturer (Pennypacker's Prime Products), is what was known at the time as a freethinker. He is president of the Darwin League. He makes fiery speeches in favor of woman suffrage ("Women seem to be people-let them vote"). He goes lolly-gagging about the landscape in an avant-garde motorcar known as a Firestone Columbus. And at every opportunity he comes crashing down, and damn the Spode, on the side of lip rouge and attached collars...