Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...let's go to lodge tonight...
haven't been for years. Let's don our little aprons white...
wrestling bout or fight Switch off that darned old radio; let...
...Friends Threatened. The evidence of a split in China's Politburo is the off-again-on-again confusion of the current "counter-rectification" campaign, which has caused a vast wave of discontent among China's intellectuals. Originally it was Mao who promulgated the "let all flowers bloom" thesis; in pushing it so diligently, he was mindful of Budapest and the need for some guarded outlet for intellectual ferment (as shown by his many worried references to Hungary in his secret February speech). But no sooner had the flowers of discontent begun to appear as shoots than they were...
...revolution," he cried. "Throw away all laziness, all egocentricity, all greed, all lawlessness, all degeneration, all luxury, all opportunism, all immorality. The year 1957 is our year of decision. Shall we survive or shall we perish? We have come to the point of no return. As from this day let us launch the New Life Movement. Let us not meet it with cynicism, derision and ridicule . . . because, in truth, the intention is good. It is a movement to forge the Indonesian into a new man-purehearted, steelwilled, with the spirit of an eagle and a soul of fire...