Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the recess several white students talked freely with reporters. One girl, an attractive redhead who refused to give her name or be photographed, said, "If parents will just go home and let us alone, we'll be all right. It's going to be hard, but we'll do it. Nobody wants it, but it has to be because it's the law. There might be a few bloody noses, but if the mob stays away, we'll work...
Although Communist countries may be able to gain a certain propaganda advantage by admitting Western travelers, the United States can gain no less an advantage by demonstrating its willingness to let its citizens see formerly forbidden sights. There is even the possibility that the State Department might benefit from the activities of unofficial observers. Not even Secreary Dulles has been to Red China...
...Bride and Groom had a "big surprise" for the groom last week, and he coyly let the audience in on it: he had corralled the bridegroom's best friend for a "completely unexpected appearance" and was hiding him behind a screen offstage...
...first I'd like to fight a few nontitle fights. I'd like to go to Rome and fight for the Pope's charity. Then I'd like to put on an exhibition in Tel Aviv. Then I'd like the State Department to let me go to Russia and put on a few fights there-undo some of the harm that guy Faubus has done this country abroad...
Just as angry was BOAC's Managing Director Basil Smallpeice, who let Bristol have it on the chin. When Bristol's short-range Britannia 102s finally went into service from London to Johannesburg last February, said Smallpeice, they were 19 months late, which held down BOAC's net profit in fiscal 1956 to $850,000. Yet the 102's tendency to ice at high altitudes has still not been licked. During 1956, Bristol tried to correct the icing, which caused dangerous flameouts. Finally, it devised a still not entirely satisfactory solution: a platinum glow plug "pilot...