Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer of 1863, Lee prepared his second invasion of the North. George Meade, called in at the last minute to replace the bumbling Hooker, turned back the new thrust with considerable competence at Gettysburg-"General Meade will make no blunder on my front," Lee had correctly predicted-but let the defeated Rebs retreat unimpeded to the other side of the Potomac. Once again the North had lost an opportunity to end the war quickly: "What does it mean?" asked a despairing Lincoln. "Great God! What does it mean...
...sternly with the writers, the pro-government Literaturnaya Gazeta said last week, the courts dealt too lightly with them. Its solution: deport the dissident writers. "Instead of feeding such people at public expense in our prisons or corrective labor camps," wrote Editor Aleksandr Chakovsky, "it would be better to let them be supported by the taxpayers of the U.S., Britain or West Germany...
...with the Negro, let's face it, there has been oppression for a hundred years," he said. "But now the doors have basically been opened. I don't think that just going out and breaking the law is justified...
INSTEAD of seeming to muffle dissent, Johnson now argues that he is defending his own right to articulate American policy in the face of forces which would deny him a hearing. "I'm not going to sit by and let [my programs of social justice] be torn down in a partisan political year," he told a Building and Construction Workers Union conference on Monday...
Harris said that about 1500 colleges--including Harvard--and more than 2,000,000 students will take part in the poll, which will be held April 24. The service academies' presidents are the only ones who have refused to let their campuses take part in the poll, he added...