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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Italian Independence. As the proceedings entered the second week, the Soviet hosts seemed more willing to let everyone have his say. Hoping to avoid any further fissures in the already fragmented Communist world, the Soviets also backed off somewhat from their earlier determination to wrest from the delegates an endorsement of the Russian stand against China and approval of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Compared with previous Communist conferences, Moscow '69 was relatively open and candid. Pravda ran excerpts from the speeches, including those unfavorable to the Soviet viewpoint. There were daily briefings for correspondents. A Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Independent Mood | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...only thing that all Irishmen agree about is that you're wrong. In fact, even that statement would probably fetch you a fight in any decent Dublin pub. So before a word is said about the Irish character, let it be stated that very few Irishmen have it. The Irish character, if the truth be told, is a silly joke played on the English, and is only kept around for the sake of the tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: OBSERVATIONS UPON THE IRISH | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...Boom let. In fact, tourism is thriving, and the hippies have brought no epidemics with them. What they have brought is an economic boomlet, by injecting nearly half a million dollars into the local economy with their land purchases alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hippies: Paradise Rocked | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...first three weeks, Cavett has deftly handled such disparate talents as Truman Capote, Joe Namath, Candice Bergen, Rex Reed, Gloria Steinem and Mort Sahl. Coming on like an urbane Henry Fonda, he asks a few questions, grins puckishly now and again, then sits back to let guests earn their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Shows: Cavett's Return | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

During the next seven months, the parallel movements occurred about 40 more times. The only possible explanation for those multiple coincidences, wrote Weber in a report to Physical Review Let ters, a publication of the American Physical Society, was that the instruments had actually recorded gravity waves from far out in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relativity: Gravitating Toward Einstein | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

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