Word: lets
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...anxious hours in defiance of presidential appeals to return and belated congressional legislation barring a strike until March. To soften labor's resistance, Congress also took an extraordinary step: it ordered an immediate 13½% wage increase, part of it retroactive to last January, but let the unions' archaic work rules stand unchallenged. Still unsatisfied, the chief labor spokesman, Charles Leslie Dennis, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, called off the walkout only after a federal court ordered his union to pay $200,000 for every day it struck beyond the first 24 hours...
...dramatic response was to order a naval blockade of Cuba and to warn that the U.S. would take "whatever means may be necessary" to remove the missiles. Khrushchev grew alarmed. Seeking "to take the heat off the situation," he suggested to other members of his government: "Comrades, let's go to the Bolshoi Theater this evening. Our own people as well as foreign eyes will notice, and perhaps it will calm them down." After he and Kennedy had begun exchanging secret personal messages, he recalls, "I spent one of the most dangerous nights at the Council of Ministers offices...
...tung's permission to build a radio in China that would reach Soviet submarines. Mao's reply: "No! We don't want you here. We've had foreigners on our territory for years now, and we're not ever going to let anyone use our land for their own purposes again...
...bear quoting, but here is a mild example: EXTENDING THE SEASON'S GREETINGS AND EXPRESSING THE HOPE THAT OUR CARNAL RELATIONSHIP MAY CONTINUE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. By buying nonseasonal cards, the frustrated shopper might even be able to vent the hostility that Christmas pressures frequently evoke. LET ME GET ANGRY JUST ONCE WITHOUT APOLOGIZING FOR IT would seem a suitable sentiment for family and loved ones, I DON'T LIKE YOU would do for any number of minions who expect tips...
...years ago, the athletic director at Julia Barash's high school in Monroe, N.Y., refused to let her try out for the school's varsity tennis team−an all-male squad. His shaky ground: state regulations say that girls just don't compete with boys. Julia appealed to the state education department. Advised by counsel that Julia would win a court case in straight sets, the department defaulted. She promptly became Monroe's top player and pulled the team out of the cellar into a tie for first place...