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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd's reach. I started over in that direction, along with the mob. A fellow asked me, 'What's goin' on?' His answer came from a stocky butcher-boy type who yelled, 'It's one of them nigger-lovin' LIFE photographers. Let's get him!' Butcher-boy seized my arm, pulled me along with him. So while Paul and Grey were trying to escape the crowd, I was in hot pursuit. I got out of the crowd beside the green police car into which Paul and Grey were finally pushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...agent turned well-meaning-but sometimes ineffectual-public servant, had said could preserve the peace in Little Rock. (Police Chief Marvin Potts apparently was not so sure: he judiciously stayed in his office.) But right at the beginning the Little Rock cops made their first and greatest mistake: they let a crowd begin to gather. It was small at first, and quiet. Asked one man in grey working clothes of another: "What're you doing here?" Came the reply: "Just came by to see what's doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quick, Hard & Decisive | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...Living End. But not for long-trouble was developing at Roadblock Alpha, the day's hot spot. The crowd was growing again. Major Meyers ordered it to move on. Nothing happened-and Meyers was fed up. He rasped harshly over his loudspeaker: "Let's clear this area right now. This is the living end! I'll tell you, we're not going to do it on a slow walk this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quick, Hard & Decisive | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...Were Governor." "Eisenhower has lit the fires of hate,'' intoned Mississippi's Senator James Oliver Eastland. Alabama's Governor James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim'') Folsom pledged that he would disband Alabama's National Guard before he would let Eisenhower order it into federal service. "We still mourn the destruction of Hungary," said Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, going his colleague, Dick Russell, one better. "Now the South is threatened by the President of the U.S. using tanks and troops in the streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Prick of the Bayonet | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...pass defense that let Cornell6Four backfield men who will figure prominently in the Crimson attack against Cornell this afternoon are, left to right above, DON GERETY, WALT STAHURA, STAN MERKEL, and CHET BOULRIS...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Cornell Favored by 12 Points In Yovicsin's Opening Contest | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

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