Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imagine a newspaper announcing that the Russians had organized a unit to send a man to hell. The next morning there would be two or three federal agencies around with budget figures, public relations staffs pounding on the walls of Congress saying, 'We can't let 'em beat...
RUSSIA: The Germans had the right to "participate fully," and there was a "gentleman's agreement" among the Big Four to let the Germans speak up whenever they wished...
...finally took pains to rebuke "a distinguished wartime colleague of mine." Said Bradley: "The best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and mothball his opinions." His target: Britain's retired Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who let Bradley off easy in his potshotting memoirs, more recently lambasted current U.S. leadership. Another Bradleyism for Monty to ponder: "So swift has been the advance of technology in our armed forces that there are no longer any retired military authorities-only active and practicing ones...
Roman Catholicism has had relatively little success in the Canadian North, says Marsh, partly because of the difficulty of attending Mass, partly because the Eskimo is an individualist. "He just won't let anyone tell him what to do. He doesn't readily subject himself to the discipline required of a Catholic." The Roman Catholic mission at Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, has not made a convert in 30 years, and the Eskimos of northern Quebec, which is well saturated with Catholic missionaries, are 98% Anglican...
...come a far piece," he recalls of his departure from Little Rock, in a new book entitled It Has Happened Here (Harper; $2.95). "Little Rock was a classic example of what a community should not let extremists do to it. I did not think it could happen ... I don't believe it will happen again in the same way. It is no longer possible to escape the realization that the future of our public education is at stake, that the future of thousands upon thousands of wonderful young people depends on respect for the law. I hold a fundamental...