Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government had ever dared to put it into effect. While Moslems and Frenchmen alike cheered him on, burly Jacques Soustelle, who escaped a police guard in Paris to fly to Algiers, called for complete political integration of 1,000,000 French and 8,700,000 Moslem Algerians. Cried Soustelle: "Let each one of us be French like all the rest, with the same rights and duties...
Clap to Silence. One contestant stopped the music to complain that the orchestra was not following him. Snapped Steinberg: "They are going slow because you let them." At one point he clapped the orchestra to silence and commented: "One group played their eighth notes too fast; did you spot it?" The contestant thought that it was the second violins. "To my ear," said Steinberg, "it was the violas, but I did not want to let out the secret...
...Critic Trilling last week in the New York Herald Tribune: "If there was once a time when the moderator was a referee between antagonists, today he is a ubiquitous avoider or smoother-over of differences. One of the most distinguished is Howard K. Smith of The Great Challenge (CBS). Let one of the discussants so much as intimate a fresh idea or engage another of the panelists in controversy, and there is Mr. Smith, quick on the switch, shunting the discussion into more neutral territory. The result of Mr. Smith's tactful control of the situation is that...
...Let the sawed-off, hammered-down, pint-flask-size men of the world hold their heads in pride high above their inches today. A new Napoleon has arisen to the height of five feet seven to lead the bantam brigade...
...menfolk into slave labor camps. In 1952 the Chinese Communists, who had taken over, promised the sect a chance to migrate to Paraguay. The Old Believers sold their hunting rifles and farms, only to have the Communist government go back on its promise. But last year Peking finally softened, let 526 Old Believers leave for Hong Kong...