Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Women, let's comb our hair and leave the "shaggy dogs" to Walt Disney...
...colorful characterization." Argued Clark, from the perspective of a longtime (1945-49) U.S. Attorney General: "Surely one does not have a constitutional right to have access to the Government's military secrets . . . No one reading the [majority] opinion will doubt that ... its broad sweep speaks in prophecy. Let us hope the winds may change. If they do not, the present temporary debacle will turn into a rout of our internal security...
...year-old David Rankin. whom he had met in the Galveston hospital. The boy. said the Governor, had beaten him at poker with a "Mexican straight" (a hand consisting of deuce. 4. 6. 8 and 10). The boy's surprised parents demurred at the adoption plans, but let David go to Baton Rouge to welcome Ole Earl home...
...Kennedy's message was plain and Di Salle got it: if Mike Di Salle runs in the primary, either he must pledge himself to Kennedy or Kennedy will run against him. Said Di Salle, when he discovered that there was little else worth saying: "All right, boys. Let's go downstairs. The spaghetti's gettin' cold...
...President, was an active Eisenhower advocate who had also talked privately about the vice presidency with Ikemen Tom Dewey and Herbert Brownell. Fresh from Chicago convention headquarters, Nixon swung aboard the Warren train at Denver, began spreading the word of Eisenhower's growing strength, got some Californians to let Warren know that they would stick with him only in the first ballot, then swing to Ike. The threatened rebellion never came off, because Eisenhower got the nomination on the first ballot. But Earl Warren, bitterly disappointed, according to one friend, "to his dying day will believe that Nixon sold...