Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower's "open skies" proposal: "They say, 'Let us fly over your country and you fly over ours.' But we don't want to fly over your country, and we don't want you to be here. Is that...
Johnny wasted no time. One day he turned up in London to keep Lana company. But by then, Lana Turner was wearying of Johnny, and Johnny was too tough to let himself be discarded. They fought. Once he nearly strangled her, grabbed a razor and threatened to cut her face. Lana's studio friends heard about it, got Scotland Yard to get Johnny out of the country...
...told you I don't want to argue in front of the baby.' [Back in my bedroom] Mr. Stompanato grabbed my arm, shook me ... said, as he told me before, no matter what I did or how I tried to get away he would never let me. If he said 'jump' I would jump, and if he said 'hop' I would hop ... or he would cut my face or cripple me . . . that he would kill me and my daughter and my mother...
Ready to Fail. The issue was whether to let the Anglo-American "good-offices" mission fail. For seven weeks, since the French aerial bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef (TIME, Feb. 17), U.S. Diplomatic Troubleshooter Robert Murphy and Britain's Harold Beeley had been trying to mediate the quarrel between France and Tunisia. They cleared away many brambles, but on one point no agreement seemed possible. Keenly aware that his own people would almost certainly repudiate him if he shut off all aid to the Algerian rebels, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba flatly refused...
Chits for Cash. While Magsaysay scrupulously refused to accept campaign contributions himself, Garcia let it be known that he would accept contributions personally-or they might be given to his wife, whose financial acumen and taste in jewelry are much admired in Manila. For a long while, permission to withdraw dollar reserves from the Central Bank was granted only when accompanied by chits initialed by Garcia. During his six-month campaign, the bank's dollar reserves dropped $90 million as a result of heavy but legal withdrawals...