Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Assassination," George Bernard Shaw once wrote, "is the extreme form of censorship." In most U.S. cases, the assassins have indeed dedicated themselves to blotting out viewpoints that disagree with their own. When Sirhan Sirhan was seized after the shooting of Robert Kennedy, he cried: "I can explain! Let me explain!" The appalling thing is that he really thought that he could...
Harriman: Let me express the hope that one day soon we will have a meeting at which these questions can be answered simultaneously, for these are questions that must be taken together...
Drysdale: Let's take one thing at a time. First off, I throw sidearm because I started out as an infielder. My dad, who was once a minor-league hurler (as you guys call us), wouldn't let me pitch; he was afraid I'd get "Little League elbow." Now about that headhunting: absolutely not. If I deliberately tried to hit batters, I could knock down nine out of ten, like any other good pitcher. As for Vaseline, I never owned a jar of it. That's greasy kid stuff...
Announcer: I'm not sure opposing batters would be satisfied with all those answers, Don. But let's move on. When you first came up to the major leagues, you had a reputation for being temperamental and for, well, sounding off. Buzzie Bavasi, the Dodgers' general manager, even gave you a plaque that was inscribed "To be seen-stand up. To be heard-speak up. To be appreciated-shut up." Now that you're 31 and there's a grey hair in your right sideburn and you're making $100,000 a year...
...genius category, but his grades were mediocre until his interest was aroused. He was so bored by his fifth-grade schoolwork in Stockton, Calif., where his father then taught at the University of the Pacific, that concerned school officials gave him a battery of psychological tests, then decided to let him skip the sixth grade. His marks climbed, and he was jumped past the ninth and eleventh grades. He went to summer school, took eight semesters of Berkeley math and humanities courses by mail, graduated from high school...