Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik's day-as a broad outline. Did the proposed program meet the requirements of that speech? If so, it was approved. If not, more work had to be done. At the meeting on Mutual Security, Nixon repeated a phrase he has come to use with increasing frequency: "Let's not lean with the wind," i.e., the Administration should not take the easy political way out by sacrificing vital foreign-aid funds...
Djellabah & Degree. Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef did not let the bad news spoil his trip. Apart from official business -including a hurried conference with his aides on the sudden flare of border battles between Moroccan irregulars and Spanish forces (see FOREIGN NEWS)-and ceremonial dinners, luncheons and receptions, the King found dramatic ways to point up his country's ties with the U.S. Stopping off at A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters for a sip of orange juice and a chat with President George Meany, he recalled that the A.F.L. and C.I.O. had helped to organize trade unions in Morocco. Meeting...
...decoded dispatches. At first the attache in charge carefully supervised Francesco's performance of this daily chore, but after a time (and after Francesco had thoughtfully filled the furnace with damp paper to ensure the production of clouds of steamy smoke that stung diplomatic eyes) the attache let him go it alone. Francesco burned a few of the papers and took the rest (for a small fee) to the Italian military intelligence. "I was certainly not qualified," he writes modestly, "to select the material, all of which seemed to me absolutely incomprehensible." But by choosing a few dispatches...
...coincide with a nationwide outbreak, Sukarno went on the radio almost immediately to announce his survival. "This is my voice, the voice of Sukarno," he said. "I want to express my gratitude to God Almighty that I have been saved from assassination. I urge calm and intensified national security. Let us stick together in our grief. May God protect us all." This done, Sukarno set out to discover who among his myriad enemies had tried to kill...
Lumps in the Throat. Arguing that diamond production should be held back during the Depression rather than let their value, in price and prestige, depreciate in a cheap market, he outtalked opposition directors, was elected chairman. De Beers became his. He still had to argue, cajole, charm, browbeat rivals, but he survived all challengers. At his direction, the cartel held diamonds off the market to keep prices up; it forced dealers to take lots (up to $50,000) or get none at all. But Oppenheimer successfully fought off a U.S. Government antitrust suit in 1945 on the ground that...