Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What about the countless fiery speeches of Banda and his followers in which they promised every Congress member a car, refrigerator, big house, etc., when the whites are kicked out of Nyasaland? Are these the words of responsible leaders? Is it so difficult to understand that Britain can safely allow this sort of nonsense to be spouted daily at Hyde Park Corner, but not in Blantyre to an unsophisticated audience of Africans...
Best guess was that De Gaulle's scheme would then provide for "electoral consultation" with the Algerian people to allow them at least limited self-determination of their future relationship with France. Either through a popular referendum or an elected Assembly, Algerians might be permitted to choose among full integration of Algeria with France, some form of regional autonomy within the French Republic, or home rule as a member of the French Community in Africa. In time-perhaps after five years-Algeria might even be granted the right to opt for full independence...
Endlessly he defended "provincial autonomy." But Duplessis' continuing squabble with Canada's federal government over tax apportionment, his refusal to let the Trans-Canada Highway go through Quebec, his refusal to allow Quebec universities to accept sorely needed federal grants, made much sense in French Canada. Quebec, over the eventful 200 years since England's Wolfe beat France's Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, has kept its identity, even prospered as a French enclave in the continent of les Anglais and the Yankees. A major reason was just this sort of cohesive orneriness...
...never be sure who-if anyone-has one. He is certain that dogs do not have souls, and it is thinkable that God might have been hatched from an egg. As for man: "It might be that nature never intended us to have a soul. That all nature will allow is instinct, and that the soul is an importation and a foreign growth...
Quickly, a reporter moved in: "How would you like to fly to the U.S. in it?" At that point, with careful casualness, Russia's boss drew Washington's attention to the chief reason he had been willing to allow the Soviet man in the street opportunity to cheer Richard Nixon. "This plane or some other one." he shrugged. "That is not a question of principle." How soon did he want to visit the U.S.? "When the time is ripe," said Nikita. "In good time...