Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to run again, but he still had to fend off questions. Finally, at Gettysburg, Hagerty talked to Ike in a cattle pen near the gabled farmhouse. "How are things in the outside world?" asked the President. "They're driving me crazy about re-election," said Hagerty. "Let's break the logjam." replied President Eisenhower. "Jim, why don't you go back and grin at them?" Jim Hagerty did just that, and his grin made national headlines. It was confirmed a week later when the President subtly revealed his intentions to visiting Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland...
...With our fine Communist surgical knife we must cut out this sore from the body politic." "I built Rome; with Rome I stand or fall," Vaselli growled, and refused to leave his 250-room Piazza del Popolo palace (a floor apiece for his three sons, the ground floor thriftily let to a popular café, where the intelligentsia met to debate socializing wealth). Instead, he used his depreciating lire to buy apartments and land from fellow capitalists who lacked nerve and fore sight to bet their wealth against the Reds, and emerged richer than ever...
Khalil sternly refused to let the Russians stage an "atoms for peace" exhibition in Khartoum, arrested and questioned Sudanese students who attended last summer's Moscow Youth Festival. On another occasion he acidly reminded the Russians that they kept a 55-man staff in Khartoum, compared with the Sudan's three men in Moscow...
...Jebel Auliya Dam 450 miles inside Sudanese territory, keeps careful watch on the Nile's flow at Malakal and Juba. But the Sudanese, increasingly annoyed at Egypt's interference, may decide to go ahead at Roseires anyway. And they hold one long-term trump card: refusal to let Egypt undertake the proposed Aswan High Dam unless the Sudan gets more Nile water upstream...
...Pressed Montreal M.P. Leon Crestohl, obviously astonished: "Would you think that I, as a Jew and even as a member of the House of Commons, might be barred from membership?" Replied Lawson: "I would think so, yes." Said Crestohl evenly: "We have heard enough about the Canadian Club. Let's get on with our business...