Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's half on the inning, center-fielder Neil Hurley beat out a bunt down the third base line, and tried to steal second. The Junior's head-first slide into second caused shortstop Crowley to let the ball get by him, and Hurley advanced to third. Dan DeMichele looped a hit over the third baseman to drive in Hurley and tie the score...
...bright spot in the game was the Crimson's relief pitching, which faced only twenty-two batters in seven innings. Bob Kalinowski pitched five innings and allowed only three hits, all in the sixth; Curt Tucker struck out three and never let ball out of the infield in facing six hitters...
Other forces are at work as well. Because Nixon has concluded that the war cannot be won within a time span that the U.S. would tolerate, he cannot let himself be solely dependent on the Paris talks. If the meetings go on too long, he could decide on a unilateral cutback of American forces. This might keep U.S. dissatisfaction with the war below the boiling point...
...must return all territory, including the Arab sector of Jerusalem, conquered in the 1967 war. This Israel is not prepared to do without a genuine settlement negotiated directly with the Arabs. "If the Jordanians have a constructive plan," said Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gideon Rafael, "let them bring it to the table." The Israelis believe that any recommendations by the Big Four are likely to demand more from them than from the Arabs, and thus they have opposed the talks, which continued last week in New York...
Although the union leadership later claimed credit for the bill's passage, dissident members contend that aging Ray Humphreys, president of U.M.W.'s District 17, reflects the real attitude at the union's sumptuous Washington headquarters. Says Humphreys: "I guess we did let the sons of bitches get us behind the eight ball...