Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death of 17 defenseless U.S. airmen calls for something more than knowledge of how they died and the sympathy of the free world. Let's shake our State Department out of its naive apathy; let's recall our Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and let's kick Soviet Ambassador "Smiling Mike" Menshikov and the rest of the bastards out of this country...
...dirt-poor, coup-prone Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000). The angry crowd was demonstrating against an article in magamogul Henry Luce's Time (circ. 2,300,000), quoting an unidentified American embassy official as having said that the only solution to Bolivia's problems was to "abolish Bolivia and let its neighbors divide the country and its problems among themselves...
Every goal but one was scored when the teams were at full strength, and on a carefully set up play, not a defensive mistake. Play was rugged--vicious during the initial two periods--and the passing and play making was accurate and crisp, except for a slight let-down on the varsity's part during the final stanza...
...board ship for Japan. A grieving widower, he has lost a daughter at Hiroshima; she, a son fighting the Japanese. What seems to make Mrs. Jacoby irresistible to Mr. Asano is that she keeps dropping magazines and mothers his cold with Smith Bros, cough drops. The couple soon let woebegones be woebegones, but Mrs. Jacoby's daughter and diplomat son-in-law plant cacti in the path of true love. Only at play's end is Mrs. Jacoby set to make "kosher sukiyaki" her dish of life...
...only twelve years old, and already he has been caught tampering with a parking meter and sent off to a work farm. The hero (Anthony Quinn), a well-preserved, middle-aged widower with a small business of his own, makes the widow a heartfelt proposal: Let's get married and give the boy a decent home to grow...