Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disturbed by U.S. and Euro pean press criticism (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES). On Tuesday, only minutes before his press conference, Dulles sent down for a handful of State Department mail to be picked out at random, read many letters from the U.S. public that said something like "Don't let's have a war just on account of Quemoy and Matsu," but many, many more that simply pleaded "Let's not get into a war." The basic U.S. policy on Quemoy-hold the 'islands against Communist aggression in the Pacific, but negotiate if the Communists agree...
...That suave, ivy league fraternity gentleman who pounds on your door Monday night may be pounding on your posterior before long.... Ask him if his is one of the large number of houses that are transformed into a prehistoric cave during that week. Let him tell you about the activities "which develop brotherhood." Let him tell you about the raw eggs that will be dropped into your mouth, about the pigly, nude races you will have, about the days you will be forced to remain awake...
...First, let me say that I believe that there is a need for NSA, that NSA does very good work, and that Harvard should belong to it. Why then did I vote to leave? Not, as has been represented, because I think Harvard is different--for better or worse, not bcause Harvard can't afford it (though NSA would take at minimum one-fourth of what we received at registration), and not because the Student Council wants to set up a rival organization...
...Let us instead take part in a great public affirmation of the spirit in which recent decisions by the Federal Courts have been made and let us show the whole Federal establishment, including the Congress, that a massive national feeling stands behind the full enforcement of those decisions...
...Let us show how we feel about the maintenance of law and free, public, integrated education. Let us start reacting first by showing simply that we exist and that we are going to rebuild Clinton's high school to prove...