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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continue to pour billions of dollars of aid into Communist countries when it has failed to make them cooperative or even happy ? Let's try beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Pain in Maine. With agonizing reluctance, Dwight Eisenhower agreed to let Adams go. But he could not bring himself to ask for the resignation himself. To Meade Alcorn, longtime Adams friend and a fellow Dartmouth graduate, went the unenviable assignment of telling Adams. "You've got to handle it," said Ike. "It's your job, the dirtiest I can give you." Alcorn was delayed only by a frantic last-minute call from Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne, who insisted that, because both he and Adams had accepted Goldfine gifts, to impute dishonesty by firing Adams would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Exit Adams | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...questions by taking the Fifth Amendment. Reminded, after investigation, that the Ohio Conference of Teamsters and Cleveland's Joint Teamster Council 41 both voted to award him $20,000 apiece if he was "severed" from the union, Presser replied: "I'll tell you the truth if you let me get out from under the oath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slippery Jim | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...traveling carnivals. The big shows employ up to 500 people, pay top wages ($125 a week for pig-iron operators, as much as $2,000 for big-name acts), keep their owners in the top tax brackets. The little 40-milers (trailer shows making short jumps between towns) sometimes let a Colonel Alter save something more than a Philadelphia bankroll, sometimes are hard put to buy groceries. But big shows or 40-milers, the carnies were migrating south last week, running from the bloomers (un profitable nights) and hunting down the red ones (good nights). And tough as times were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No More Rubes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Speaking at the inauguration of Clark Kerr as President of the University of California, Pusey implored educators not to let what he called "practical concerns" force them to forget that "the greatest intellectual achievements and discoveries of man" come from scholarly research...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Pusey Urges Adhering To Free Inquiry | 9/27/1958 | See Source »

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