Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YOUR COVER OF DE GAULLE AND COULD NOT WAIT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT HE IS NOT DE GAULLE AT ALL. HE IS SERGEANT BILKO'S COLONEL HALL...
Showing the bluntness that he rarely lets the public see or hear, Dwight Eisenhower let fire last week with the toughest language he has aimed at Capitol Hill during his 5½ years in the presidency. Target of the salvo: the defense reorganization bill unanimously reported out by "Uncle Carl" Vinson's House Armed Services Committee. When he first laid eyes on the committee's draft in mid-May, the President dubbed it "progress." But close analysis showed that three Vinson & Co. provisions sliced deep into the substance of the Administration's painstakingly thought-out proposal (TIME...
...Let's go on the carrier...
...Estimated total: upwards of $250,000. Fearing that cartwheels might be scarce some day-the last batch was minted in 1935-West built up a reserve supply, apparently added the emergency store of deuces just in case the silver-dollar stockpile ran low. Jim West was no man to let himself get into the embarrassing plight of having to hand out ordinary $1 bills...
...good day for Grandmother Boston when the high wooden walls of Puritanism can be wedged apart far enough to let such an amoral gem of a film play at the Kenmore. Not that it's pornographic. Not a bit. It proves the point that sex is an excellent subject for art and comedy without having to be crude or blatantly erotic. Although it is, really, all about sex, it has none of the relatively clumsy Hollywood eroticism of the writhing Presley genre, or even of recent French letdowns, such as And God Created Woman...