Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victory in the final event let the unbeaten varsity swimming team edge previously undefeated Navy, 47 to 39, at the I.A.B. Saturday. With the home team leading by a lone point, the relay team of Koni Ulbrich, brothers Dave and Dick Seaton, and Bruce Hunter won the deciding race, the 400-yard freestyle relay, to gain seven points and secure the victory...
...often superior as a group educationwise, entered the Army for their active duty with a relatively high level of enthusiasm, but every RFA to whom I have spoken agrees that his education was no asset during his basic training. Their leaders, in the traditional Army manner, would tell them, "Let us do all the thinking. It'll keep you all out of trouble," and although this was a statment of discipline, it was also one of fact. What was taught the men was often so overdone and geared for the minimum mentality that an intelligent person eventually could not help...
...Let Russia shoot its Luniks. Two-thirds of the Soviet people don't even know what a decent outhouse looks like...
...week, where Rumanian Jews were arriving at the rate of 6,000 a month, authorities estimated that 100,000 of the 250,000 Jews left in Rumania would, if allowed, join the exodus to Israel over the next months. This flood would easily top the 40,000 that Poland let out after its 1956 thaw, and would leave Russia's 3,000,000 as the only big Jewish community remaining in Eastern Europe. Rumania's action, says one Israeli official, "promises to be bigger than the Spanish expulsion...
...assessed its caretaker, rather than dare-taker, cultures. He admired the well-bred aplomb of knowledgeable Englishmen whose ease of manner gives "the impression of having already lived once," but found "too many reserved seats" in English life. He was drawn to the independent French spirit of live-and-let-live, but noted the spiritual vacuum in which "French intellectuals so often seem to dislike the present, to fear the future and to deny the hereafter. They believe only in disbelieving." As for the prevailing winds of anti-Americanism. Griffith reminds his readers that unfavorable winds have always blown...