Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite attempts by other countries to rile our citizenry, Americans must make every effort to remain the beacon of liberty and justice in this repression-darkened world. Let us not sink to Iran's level by persecuting all Iranians...
...little by other powers as we, in our vanity, have here tofore regarded ourselves." Table-top fireworks, the Star-Spangled Banner, universal shouts of approval followed Grant's remarks. After the speeches and 15 toasts (the last one to "the babies, as they comfort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities"), a literary guest named Samuel Clemens responded: "We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common...
This upheaval contributed to a sense in Washington that time might after all be on the Administration's side, that Iran was sinking gradually into chaos and that Khomeini might be more willing to listen to the President's basic message: Let's make a deal. The Administration, however, carefully avoided raising public expectations that a settlement was in sight. Said a high State Department aide: "I am more optimistic this week than last, but only...
...expression of issues is quite different." On one occasion, he had to retape a TV segment, and when he was asked for the second time why he was running, he gave a rambling, less coherent answer. During a break in the filming, he quipped: "If another problem develops, let's go back to the first tape and use subtitles...
More broadly, the left-wing terrorist groups oppose any movement of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico toward statehood. If he is re-elected next year, Governor Carlos Romero Barceló has promised to hold a plebiscite in 1981 to let Puerto Ricans choose between statehood, independence and the status quo. A second cause for protesters is the Navy's determination to keep using Vieques for maneuvers...