Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Let's go!" yells the platoon commander. The troops rush into an open field. Gunfire cracks in the air. The Marines capture the helicopter pad in ten minutes. While Duden helps guard the perimeter, the others disarm the P.O.W.s and search them for coded messages. "If we capture a female aggressor, we're not allowed to search her," Duden explains. "That's one concession they had to make...
Federal prosecutors charge that Estes was also involved in eight or ten other deals. But after negotiations with Estes and his lawyers, the Justice Department decided to let him plead guilty to a single count of conspiracy to defraud the Government, a blanket charge covering tax evasion and mail and wire fraud. He faces a $5,000 fine and up to five years in jail. Yet, through the same sort of sharp bargaining that made him his fortune, Estes is expected to be sent back to prison for only a couple of years at most...
...Wilkinson looked his age when he let in the press after praising his men for the game they had played. His face was drawn, his eyes were red, and his voice was very soft and tightly controlled - always a danger sign with him. Then Dallas Defensive Line Coach Ernie Stautner dropped by. "You guys deserve a lot more than you've been getting," he said, and Wilkinson's face brightened briefly...
...first time a device for liquefying helium in large quantities. That was no small feat, because helium does not become liquid until its temperature has been reduced to about 4° above absolute zero. When Kapitsa returned to the Soviet Union for a visit in 1934, Stalin refused to let him leave again-on the ground that he was too precious a commodity to be allowed abroad. Continuing his experiments at home, Kapitsa helped shed light on the extraordinary behavior of supercold helium-helium II-which acts as a perfect fluid, so lacking in viscosity that it will creep over...
...Demonstrator Jane Fonda the notion amounted to unmitigated gall. She and 500 other protesters with pickets and bullhorns denounced Smith as a symbol of white-ruled Africa's racial policies. "We have enough problems here," Fonda declared, "without propping up a minority military regime. It is important to let him know that his philosophy is not welcome to millions of Americans." To Smith the hostility was nothing new: he has been greeted similarly in Washington, New York City and Houston...