Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next to food and clothing, are the big expense, what with the children falling downstairs or sliding too fast down the bannisters, or falling off the gubernatorial totem pole that stands outside. After dinner and a session of TV-watching, church-going Roman Catholic Mike sings out: "Prayers, everyone, let's say our prayers." He and the youngsters then kneel in a cluster about a big armchair before they are paraded...
...world looked on with mingled relief and apprehension. The Russians were strangely silent. Dotty old Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov, 77, said De Gaulle's return would "do more harm than good," but Radio Moscow quickly repudiated the remark. Moscow was torn by the desire to let French Communists, rioting in the streets, appear defenders of the Fourth Republic against the "Fascist right,'' while hoping that De Gaulle's proud and mystic nationalism might jeopardize the harmony of the NATO alliance. Washington, too, was tactfully discreet, hoping that De Gaulle could restore his sick nation to health...
...Ambassador Howard Jones issued his regrets that an American "paid soldier of fortune" had become involved in the fighting, and the Indonesians seemed willing to let it go at that...
...were searchlights making giant Vs for victory, flares shooting into the sky and bands playing. In the excitement, one man died of a heart attack, 40 fainted or were trampled under foot, and 100 children got lost. From the balcony of the Government General Building came incessant loudspeaker exhortations: "Let the torches through, please. . . . That's it . . . Bravo les torches...
...Yugoslav government denounced the Russian action as an "entirely unilateral cancellation of valid economic agreements, in glaring contradiction with established standards of international relations," and hinted that it might be "compelled" to demand damages for breach of contract. But its only real recourse was to let the world see what a "selfless sharing" benefactor Moscow...