Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Reilly, an employee at Roller Power, added that skating over the cobblestones is like a zen art--you concentrate on spreading the vibrations throughout your entire body and let yourself go. Skaters use more muscles than swimmers, Reilly added...
...smiled the waiting policeman, "welcome to Shoreham." And then he arrested her, still smiles all around. The scene was repeated, with variations, hundreds of times that afternoon. Some of the protesters were grim, earnest in their belief that stopping Shoreham was a realistic possibility: "We can't let it open," said one, "I live near here." A protester explained to the officer who arrested her, "You don't understand that we're doing this for you, it's your kids that we're trying to protest." others said the protest was very nice and all that, but doubted it would...
...House Ways and Means Committee approved a tougher tax or oil-company "windfall" profits than Jimmy Carter had proposed. The President's plan would have let oil companies keep 29¢ to 34¢ of each extra dollar in profit that they make from the decontrol of domestic oil prices that Carter began June 1. The Ways and Means bill reduces the figure to between 17¢ and 23¢. It is likely to be watered down in the Senate, and end about where Carter wanted...
...based columnist who for 22 years interpreted America's wiles, whims and gossip in the London Daily Mail and papers on five continents; of a heart attack; in New York City. By depicting America as a "Rainbow Land" filled with steak-chomping faddists and wastrels, the bumptious Iddon ("Let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") delighted his readers and confirmed their preconceived notions of primitive Yankee ways...
There is a story that one alumnus was alone and lonely in Shepard's hotel in Cairo. He let out the yell in the lobby and was immediately surrounded by Harvards...