Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planning his strategy before the meet, McCurdy decided to send his captain in the four events he regularly entered--the two jumps and the two hurdle races. At Rittenburg's request, McCurdy agreed to let him enter the 100--a race he had never before run seriously in competition--as long as it didn't interfere with the high jump...
...CHAIRMAN: Well, Senator Morse, I believe I will let you ask the next question. That answered my questions...
...THOMSON: Let me suggest, as a way of answering your question, that the problem is China and the United States are squared off against each other with intense suspicion, and the problem is how to break out of the bind of mutual misapprehension...
...seems to me the way that you can back out of that bind is saying "all right, let's both stay out" and in that way you back down from this kind of action-reaction bind that we are in right...
...THOMSON: Senator, let me throw out a quick comment on that. It belongs so clearly in the crystal ball realm that anyone who would pretend to give you an answer is deluding himself. We see through a glass darkly here, and any pretense to an understanding of who will suc-Mao--and even if we knew who he was, what he would do--involves self-delusion...