Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longtime (1932-57) chairman of the U.S. Communist Party. William Z. Foster, now 78 and so ill that he has never been tried on his 1948 indictments for conspiracy, asked a Manhattan court to lift the raps on him or let him go to the Soviet Union anyway. His reason: medical treatment costs too much...
...front pages of the London press. "I was tremendously thrilled with our verdict. I was bubbling over with it." Then she called Liberace's room at the Savoy. But the pianist had left to play before a packed house at the Chiswick Empire. When a woman there shouted: "Let's have one for Mr. Connor!", Liberace turned to the keyboard and rippled out Jealousy...
...simple - twelve symbols, convertible to 48 by subtle compass shifts of position - in usage it can get incredibly complex. There is no Eskimo word for magazine ("writings" covers everything), or man (inuk, the word Eskimos use, means "hunter"), electricity, car, or wheel (many Eskimos have never seen a wheel, let alone...
...Have things been successful? How many have become Christians? Is this worth the investment?' When I first came here, I was anxious to see practical results. Now I've learned that one must act according to one's conviction in relation to others, and then let them go without standing around to see what the effect has been. If someone says, 'What are you doing here?' I would just say, 'I'm here...
bandstand of the narrow, crepe paper-festooned dance hall behind the bar ("Ladies Will Not Be Let in at the Door Wearing Shorts or Slacks") sit a pianist, trumpeter, guitarist, bass fiddler. As the evening wears on and the smoke from the wall tables eddies through the room, the band is likely to swing with a pile-driver beat into some old favorites-Big Mamou or Shake It and Break It. The style, as raw and jolting as a shot of bootleg rye, offers the last authentic taste of the music that once helped make New Orleans the world...