Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney on Washington's 32nd Street. It was an amiable, comfortable evening, with little serious political shop talk. But as it neared an end, one Democratic patriarch turned to the patriarchal guest of honor. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77, to Harry Truman: "Let me drop you downtown." From that offer came a political compact, soon whispered among Democratic professionals, that, with a wild scramble for the Democratic presidential nomination in prospect for next year, could become one of the most important political developments...
...little rabbits, a white rabbit and a black rabbit, lived in a large forest. They loved to spend all day playing together. "Let's play Hop Skip And Jump Me" said the little white rabbit. "Oh, let's . . . I wish you were all mine!" said the little black rabbit . . . All the other little rabbits came out to see how happy they both were, and they danced all night in the moonlight. And so the two little rabbits were wed and lived together happily in the big forest, eating dandelions...
...pompous, vitriol-spewing Foreign Minister, be published as part of the official conference record. (Refusing, the conference secretariat noted that the question was one on which there was "permanent disagreement.") And at the week's first formal session, Gromyko, who was chairman, broke an implicit promise to let Secretary of State Christian Herter speak first by unexpectedly recognizing Bolz-who promptly launched into a Gromyko-like denunciation of West German rearmament, while Herter fumbled with his spectacles ("Perhaps I was negligent...
...Let us not put out flags," cautioned Pinay. "All this is very fragile. Patience!" But he could not resist flying to Washington this week to announce proudly that France will pay up $118 million of its $2 billion debt to the U.S. before...
...companies were officially silent, privately frantic. "This isn't expropriation," cried one sugar executive. "It's confiscation!" Said another: "We're sort of sick here." Sugarmen talked hopefully about one provision in the law: the newly created National Agrarian Reform Institute can let foreigners own land when "beneficial for the development of the national economy." This loophole may permit the companies to stay on until they can find buyers for the land. But losses will be heavy. The price of sugar land has already dropped by half from a year ago, and shares of the affected companies...