Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the old men in TIME, Oct. 20. Now let us have some old women. Begin with me. My mother was 94 when she died. My grandfather was 94. His name was Cassius Marcellus Clay* and was Minister to Russia under Abraham Lincoln. I am 87 and have just published a book called From My Journal...
...each other. Rockefeller landed in town from a conspicuously far-from-Nixon upstate campaign swing, got on the phone to Nixon's suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Tower, suggested an appointment. Nixon left it to his staff to set up a breakfast date at 7:45 next morning, let it be known that he was delaying his scheduled departure from New York to keep the date. The upshot: Nixon and Rockefeller got together for breakfast (oatmeal for Nixon, ham and scrambled eggs for Rockefeller), cordially posed for photographs over the coffee cups (Nixon pouring...
...years the Kremlin made easy propaganda profits out of calling for a ban on nuclear tests. Then last August President Eisenhower countered with his two-part proposal: Let's stop tests for one year on a trial basis, beginning Oct. 31, and make a start, in Geneva that very same day, toward working out a reliable test-detection system. The Russians suddenly found half a dozen reasons to attack the plan for a Geneva meeting. Last week the President turned the screw by calling upon the Soviet government to announce whether it would send a delegation to Geneva...
...restaurants we shall establish this rule: if you order spirits, you will be served one shot, but a second shot will be prohibited. Some may say so what; if they don't serve us in this restaurant, we will go to another and drink a second glass. Let them go! Those who like five shots will have to go to five restaurants. They will sober up as they go from one to the other...
...Childish Task. Whether or not Soviet authorities will permit him to go to Stockholm for the Nobel Prize or let him accept the prize money ($41,420), Pasternak has small fear of official reprisal ("I am an old man; the worst which could happen to me would be death"). Whatever happens, Pasternak's way will be lonely, upright, and full of that fatalistic fortitude of which he once wrote...