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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dobelle, the young, pretty mistress of U.S. protocol at the State Department, announced the signing in a firm full voice. Pens glided smoothly across the pages, and in a few minutes Carter looked up from the last signature and said, "Let's have a handshake." Applause rose again as the men came together and clasped in a three-way grip like a debating team that had just won the match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: In Celebration of Peace | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Under current Cambridge law, purchasers of individual units can evict tenants and then let the developers turn the apartments into condos. Graham's bill would close that loophole, which she says has allowed close to 2000 condominium conversions over the last few years. segment of the community was galvanized yesterday "most of Holcombe's grievances were well-founded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Rent Control Fever | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...Let me clarify. Here was an anthology which was used by most of the universities and colleges of the USA. Some of the men who edited this text possessed some of the most enviable credentials the Euro-American world could confer upon them. Yet they could only find one Afro-American poet worthy of being anthologized. Was this racism? I leave the audience to decide. Yet these are some of the same people who tell us today that we do not need Afro-American literature courses, that the quality of Afro-American literature cannot be compared with that of Euro...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...York! I say to you: New York let black...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...Vicious's "My Way," already a punk classic. Sid hams it up in a thickened, quavering voice until Steve Jones's guitar breaks the song into the desperately vital punk mode. The poignancy of the lyrics, in light of Vicious's early death, need not be belabored here. Just let "My Way" stand as a testament to his visceral understanding of the punk aesthetic...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Kill Rod Stewart | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

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