Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor in ten years." The Quinns, by then parents of two children, talked it over. Says Bill: "That Boston weather was wet that winter, and the kids' snow suits wouldn't get dry, and Nancy wasn't feeling very well-so she said, 'Lord, let...
Already the Big Two were close enough to being a speaking-and-dealing reality that Western European diplomats were openly discussing it. "You don't know General de Gaulle," snapped a French government official, "if you think he is going to stand idly by and let Russia and the U.S. settle everything." In Britain, the Economist surprisingly took the opposite tack. Ignoring the usual British argument that the West would be lost without the benefit of Britain's deeper diplomatic savvy, the Economist saw an Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting as "an alternative to the summit," iaatly declared...
...heckling foreman: "I can tell from talking to you that you are a highly intelligent man who has studied the world situation . . . Why should somebody else tell you that you can listen to this radio broadcast but not that, and say, 'Oh no, we don't let you hear this because it is slander...
Would Gromyko agree to the conference's continuing without Herter, on deputy levels? "I do not like the idea," said Gromyko. What, continued Herter, did Gromyko suggest? "Let's keep talking and try to find a solution by Wednesday...
...land as they had under the collective farms, paid largely in kind rather than cash and denied extra pay for extra effort, many peasants saw no incentive to work. "The well-to-do middle peasants." admits Peking's Journal of Humanity, "said, 'Now that everything is communal, let us make believe we have lost our property in gambling...