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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubts Soviet rocket claims, "let's have a peaceful rocket contest just like a rifle-shooting match, and they'll see for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Shooting Match | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...City waterfront has immoral and undependable and unpredictable working types, I think you should consider moving your operators to Brooklyn [where the docks are run by "Tough Tony" Anastasia, the late Albert's brother]. All I can offer you is the guarantee of a scholar and a gentleman. Let me assure you that I will give you 5,000 spiritually free, but morally bound longshoremen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Taking Out the Garbage | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...right," I say, taking very expensive camera from around my neck and handing it toward him, "let's trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: COCKTAIL DIPLOMACY | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...Damascus, thousands of Palestine Arab refugees snaked through the streets chanting: "Let Hussein die like the dog his grandfather!" (King Abdullah, who was assassinated by a Palestinian Arab in 1951). Radio Moscow gleefully joined Nasser's chorus, described Hussein as "a friend of the bitterest enemies of the Arab world-the U.S., Britain and Turkey." The Cairo attacks were so patently absurd that Amman newspapers began publishing excerpts: "Jordanian Army Refuses Open Fire on Refugees" and "Demonstrations Being Staged Everywhere in Jordan." There were no demonstrations, as every refugee could plainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Backfire? | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...date when the country will elect a President, 187 Deputies, provincial governors, legislators and municipal officials. "We ask the candidates to be cautious in their pledges," said the President. "Whoever promises a paradise for indolents will be lying, and if he should win, the country will be in danger. Let citizens beware of miracles and medicine men, and turn toward the crude language of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Language of Truth | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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