Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just very good friends," George explained. As a matter of fact, he added, she was helping him scout the latest fashions for the string of boutiques he is being forced to open in New York, California and Europe. Forced? Well, it's either that or let Uncle Sam dip heavily into all that money that he's being paid for The Survivors, his new ABC-TV series that starts this fall...
...safe to walk down the streets today. It never was safe to walk down some streets." The world, insisted Menninger, "is getting better. We're getting better control of violence and of our own behavior than we've ever had before." Then he added: "But let's get the world just a little more civilized still...
...class." Or Ringo Starr on the Beatles' tours: "The only fun part was the hotels in the evening, smoking pot and that." Or John Lennon on the art of writing lyrics: "We know we're conning them, because we know people want to be conned. Let's stick that in there, we say, that'll start them puzzling...
Epstein decided that the real aim of introductory biology, at least for non-science majors, must be simply to let the student "know what a biologist does when he's doing biology." The student who understands that, he reasoned, will appreciate the nature of the creative activity involved. So Epstein, 48, fashioned a new "upsidedown" course in which he plunged his students into a detailed examination of one of his own research papers. He spent a week answering questions about the terms used, three weeks helping students to figure out how he had gone about the research and reached...
...HACK: The source is England's hackney horse, a creature that was let out for hire; it was usually mistreated, and became dull, broken down and exhausted. The word is particularly adaptable to politics, because political hacks are disciplined by a party whip...