Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon will get the Republican nomination, McCormack predicted, because he said President Eisenhower has let him take over "pretty good control of the party machinery" including influence on appointments, patronage and other matters...
Detention. In Newbury, Vt., when a school janitor was indicted for first-degree murder, the school board decided to let him stay on the job, but only after school hours...
...portable blackboard to draw diagrams of the accident scene. Often he chalks figures to justify the damages he is demanding-so much per hour for pain, so much for medical bills, so much in lost wages, etc., etc.-occasionally makes a deliberate mistake in addition, so as to let an alert juryman or a judge correct his arithmetic...
...General Orders. No man to let his power rust, De Gaulle last week did what former governments would not have dared. In a sweeping clemency decree De Gaulle ordered...
...Ireland and the revival of Gaelic as the national tongue. But nobody thought for a minute that he would now fail to get into the Arus an Uachtarain, the presidential mansion set in Dublin's Phoenix Park. There was even talk that the opposition Fine Gael Party would let Dev run unopposed in the June presidential election-if only out of enthusiasm at the idea of seeing him safely removed from active politics. The independent Irish Times, which has often bitterly attacked Dev and his "break all links with Britain" policy, said that Dev was "the fitting choice...