Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norstad was now upset by another De Gaulle strategy-his refusal to permit stockpiling of U.S. nuclear bombs in France unless the French government has control of them. Pointedly, Norstad let it be known that he was thinking of transferring nine squadrons of U.S. F-100 and F-1O1 fighter-bombers out of France...
...city hall's main entrance and set it afire. But inside, besides the harried carabinieri, were 100 women and children, who were trapped in upper floors as the flames spread from truck to building. As their shrill cries were heard, the mob surrounding the building parted ranks to let the women and children file out. At that point, reinforcements from Naples arrived: 500 carabinieri, 500 city cops, and six fire engines. While firemen put out the blaze, the police arrested 107 rioters...
...aroused peasants had made their point. The Italian government promised to buy $160,000 worth of potatoes at fair prices, and the Naples city government offered to let the farmers peddle their crops on the city streets without paying vendors' taxes...
...immediate purpose of the Queen's visit is to inaugurate, with President Eisenhower in Montreal next week, the St. Lawrence Seaway.* Beyond that, the tour arrangers' purpose was to let Elizabeth see "something of the life of the average Canadian," and to let Canada see the Queen whose full Canadian title is "Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." When the Queen's silver Cornet touches down at Newfoundland's St. John's Airport...
...screen. The son of a Bronx truck driver, Rocky grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, played ball just across the street in Macomb's Dam Park. Naturally, the Yankees were his boyhood heroes. Naturally, the Yankees gave him a tryout when he was only 16, but let him get away when the Indians topped the Yankees' half-hearted bid with a still modest offer of $3,000. Last year, in his second full season with Cleveland, he blasted 41 homers, just one short of matching Mickey Mantle for the league title...