Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...value the statements of two officers renowned for extreme partisanship on behalf of their own services. There are military men of sound and sober judgment in Washington today who are willing to place national interest ahead of interservice politics. To the extent that the Indians in the Pentagon will let them, they are slowly succeeding. The men I refer to are the chairman and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Radio--Let's have a potty . . . rock . . . rock...
...time for the new Tory government. As part of its campaign for greater economic independence from the U.S., it had been holding up approval for the export of Canadian natural gas to the U.S. Now, to help oil companies, which also own gas, Canada may be compelled to let natural gas that she wanted to keep back for her own development flow...
...France is growing so hot that Paris threatens to abrogate 1946 treaty that permits U.S. commercial planes to land there. French are hopping mad because State Department turned down Air France request to carry passengers beyond New York to Kansas City, Houston and Los Angeles. Although U.S. offered to let Air France start flights from West Coast to Europe via North Pole, French broke off negotiations in a huff...
...week later against powerful Minnesota, the varsity ran into a different brand of hockey and came out the worse for wear. The Gophers simply out-skated the Crimson for the first period and then let loose with a salvo of goals to win easily, 7 to 2. It was in this game that Copeland broke his wrist. He was driven into the boards by an average body check, but as he swung around to skate for the puck, his arm hit the boards and his wrist was broken...