Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosophy? Stewart paused to choose words. "If I give a simple yes or no answer it would not only disqualify my participation in pending cases and heaven only knows how many future cases, but it seems to me it would involve a serious problem of simple judicial ethics . . . Let me say this so there will be no misunderstanding. I would not like you to vote for me because I am for overturning that decision, because I am not. I have no prejudgment against that decision...
Finding the Dalai Lama proved easier than getting him home to Lhasa. The Chinese warlord of Tsinghai demanded $30,000 before he would let the boy leave. Glumly, the lamas paid it and set out for Tibet. They were stopped at the border. The warlord wanted more money, and it took two years of negotiations and a further payment of $90,000 before the Dalai Lama, by then four years old, could go in triumph to the palace of Potala...
...they entered only four years ago. But buying the News made the kind of economic sense that Jim Knight likes to make: fusing the mechanical and business office operations of the two papers will give the ledgers a real lift. As for the editorial side, Jim Knight plans to let each paper keep its individual character, with the News continuing as a folksy, locally oriented, feature-conscious paper, while the Observer moves on a somewhat more serious regional orbit. Jim Knight says he expects the papers to compete on the news side and disagree on the editorial pages...
...Henriquez was not content to observe just one side; he was constantly slipping across the lines to see how the other side operated. He was arrested 18 times, once sent before a Yugoslav partisan firing squad: "I kept laughing and telling them I was a professor, and finally they let me go." To De Henriquez, Italy's collapse was a dream come true: "Capitulations are wonderful for collectors. Generals are busy fleeing, and nobody bothers about maps and documents...
...whenever I want to. I've done it a thousand times." Why is he wearing a white suit? "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." Wielding the satiric pinpoint that is sometimes more deadly than the sword, Twain proceeds to let the hot air out of do-gooders, religious humbugs and assorted hokum peddlers. To vary the pace, there are tall tales, a ghost story, an acted-out fragment from Huckleberry Finn. The humorist even prophesies his own death with the return of Halley's comet (1910): "The Almighty has said...