Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adjectives for 40 & 8, like "fanny-pinching and town-wrecking" and none at all for the parent American Legion? Let me suggest a couple: the public-till-raiding, socialism-for-us-but-not-for-you American Legion...
...means of reducing tension between the law and juvenile criminals in New York City, I suggest that President Eisenhower invite some of the gang leaders to tour the country. Let's show them the corn belt, Levittown, Pa., and Congress in session. Let's show them that this country is too strong and determined to tolerate lawlessness. After all, we do keep bothering Comrade Khrushchev with facts when his mind is already made...
...Success. In Paris, after winning a special commendation from the police chief for his speed in locating stolen cars, a gendarme let out the secret: he had stolen them himself...
...President Eisenhower, we came to the agreement that all of the pending international questions should not be settled by force but by peaceful means-by negotiation. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your hospitality and, as we say in Russia, for your bread and salt. Let us have more and more use for the short American word 'O.K.' " And Nikita Khrushchev was gone...
...Civil War Round Table. Once more he walked confidently into the political limelight. Without much coaxing he agreed to attend a press conference and a meeting of the Dane County Democratic Club. When Stevenson strode into the Democratic meeting in the Park Hotel, Club President Elizabeth Tarkow shouted, "Let's really give him a welcome!" The place went wild. Old Stevenson buttons magically appeared, the old nostalgia flowed, and tears brimmed in Adlai's eyes. But he quickly recovered his usual aplomb. "I wish I had something to give you in return," he told his eager listeners...