Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffered his far-from-mild 1955 heart attack, the question arose about whether to cancel orders he had put in with his San Antonio tailor for a blue suit and a brown one. Muttered Lyndon, who knew that doctors gave him only a fifty-fifty chance to live: "Let him go ahead with the blue one; we can use that no matter what happens...
Frenchmen still live there, 29,000 still serve in the Moroccan bureaucracy. King Mohammed has let France keep 20 bases and 35,000 troops in Morocco. This devotion to the French dream of "interdependence" between Morocco and France has exposed the King to incessant and increasing protests from Morocco's vociferous ultranationalists, who abhor all dealings with their country's former imperial masters. In reply, King Mohammed has counseled patience, negotiations and trust...
...only doing you a favor by coming, I mean, you're making a lot of money. Some dirty people who sell soap are making a lot of money out of it. I'm not getting a farthing out of it. Why the hell should I let myself be bullied around and kicked around by you? We [in England] do as we choose and we just don't take it bloody lying down. Your shame is on your own head, and I don't know what we're trying to sell. I didn't bother...
Back to the Attack. Swallowing hard, Wingate obeyed a hurriedly scrawled note from one of the producers: "Don't lose your temper-let him carry it." He even managed to put some more questions. But when Churchill heard one asking him to explain his charge that Americans have "deteriorated in character," he returned to the attack: "Everybody wants to do the same thing, and they're frightened and bulldozed, even bullied, often by people like yourself. I mean I'm not frightened of you. Why the hell should I be? I mean I'm leaving...
Newshen Jackson reported that Mamie "entered into the regime rather slowly after viewing the situation and screening the clients' thoroughly." avoided the "more strenuous treatments." She did not let herself be coated with hot wax in the name of beauty treatment. Nevertheless, "all the strain and tension disappeared" at the end of the first week...