Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operation, he says, "is not exciting-it's terrifying, especially, on young babies. They don't have much blood anyway, and we have to get into an area that's all blood vessels. And you have to do a lot of talking to persuade parents to let you remove half of the brain of an infant who is only a few weeks...
...texts of any American classics have been hopelessly corrupted. Typesetters were often careless; authors read proofs badly; later editors bowdlerized on grounds of prudence. Nathaniel Hawthorne's widow, for example, was an eccentric who diligently excised all words that offended her from his manuscript notebooks before she let them be published...
...going to.try the applause on the show! Are you ready, gang? Let's take it! One . . . two . . . three . . . pow! [Wild applause.] Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Yeeow! Oooh, audience, that...
Died. Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, 84, Negro evangelist, whose messages of hope lifted the spirits of untold thousands during the Depression; of a stroke; in Washington, D.C. "Let me hear them screams, pilgrims!" shouted Michaux in his nationwide radio sermons from Washington. So many people responded with screams and cash that Michaux was able to feed some 250,000 of the city's poor at his soup kitchen...
...President added that the bombing halt was not final. If the North Vietnamese should abuse the Demilitarized Zone, attack cities or provincial capitals, or refuse to enter into serious discussion about ending the war, the United States could resume bombing. Hanoi must also agree to let the elected government of South Vietnam join in the negotiations...