Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read with utter horror in TIME, Aug. 11 of the inhumane slaughtering of animals. I can't understand how such horrible methods could have gone on so long in a supposedly civilized country. If humane methods will boost meat prices, let them...
...this lack of research or lack of progress?" asked Saltonstall, a senior member of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee chaired by Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson. "Does this indicate that we are headed for second best in 1960 or 1964? So let us not sell ourselves short ... There is a great deal of difference between making a judgment based on estimates of what we think the Soviets are doing and making a judgment based on what we know we are doing . . . We shall never be the underdog if we keep...
...treason trial of Klaus Fuchs and the sensational cases of the "Chalk Pit Murder" and the "Vampire," he soon became known as the "Tiger." Green young barristers would sit up all night polishing their briefs before daring to appear before him in the morning and risk hearing him say, "Let's skip the rest and hear your last point, please." Even rich and famous lawyers, their names trailed by the initials of knighthood and honor, knew what it was like to be put in their place by Goddard. A quick and brilliant man, he was often impatient, earned...
...else could have cried the song with the same blue, bittersweet sadness. No one else could have filled the familiar words with the same heart-heavy longing for rest and ease. So they turned on a phonograph and let Big Bill Broonzy sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot at his own funeral...
...home to Utah and a $14,000-a-year job as director of the state's Road Commission. Utah was lucky to get him. Armstrong lifted Utah from 48th to 34th among states in getting its share of federal highway work under way, increased the amount of contracts let by Utah almost fivefold. Of his new $17,000-a-year federal assignment, Armstrong says: "This is a job of coordination and cooperation on a gigantic scale. We won't have to resort to any Russian methods to get it done...