Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they often let pass without comment the idle jokes and comments on Southern life. They overlook the professor's aspersion on Faubus and the preacher's praise of Martin Luther King...
...another, good business or bad, the real carnies always stick with their show. There is nowhere else to go. When a man's show folds, he will be back next season, owner of one ride, maybe, or a hanky-pank, but working for a stake that will let him open his own again. And each year it is getting harder...
...break your mother's heart." But if he stayed in Morocco, where only a fraction of the children get past elementary school, he might end up like his father who was an office messenger until he died. So Abdie found a solution: he persuaded his older brother to let one of his own children live with his mother while he is away...
...unseen aces, and probably the club king. A diamond lead would sacrifice Goren's king. A club lead, enabling East to play through North's queen, would establish a third club trick on which East could discard his losing diamond. And a heart lead would let East trump in dummy, discarding the diamond. That left Goren with the prospect of breaking two rules that can be glibly quoted by every tyro: 1) never lead from a king, and 2) never leave an honor unguarded. Goren unblinkingly led the nine of spades. By violating two elementary rules of play...
...improve yourself through hard work" and exhortations to appreciate employee benefits, e.g., "Be grateful and repay kindness." Recitation over, employees break into a martial company song, The Song of National, that urges them: "For the building of the new Japan, unite your hearts, unite your efforts. Give your all. Let us send our products to the people of the world in an unending stream." Employees then tree off to their work benches, but the uplift does not end there. In their monthly pay envelopes are pictures of Founder Matsushita beaming broadly over additional mottoes such as: "Be frugal; save...