Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ascetic little man, Elijah sternly demands that his followers give up tobacco, dope and alcohol, bathe often, pray toward Mecca five times a day, even if it means falling upon their knees in the streets. Moslem women should dress modestly, use no lipstick, never allow themselves to be alone in a room with any man except their husbands. Attacking all forms of dependence upon whites, Elijah set up a Moslem restaurant, cleaning business, barbershop, butcher shop, grocery store and department store on Chicago's South Side, a cafe in Harlem, a cafe and a farm near Atlanta, also bought...
...fail!"; and (3) "We fail." Mrs. Siddons, history's most celebrated portrayer of the role, finally settled on the third; and Miss McKenna does the same. But this is the most inadmissiable solution. Lady Macbeth must not toss the words away with shoulder-shrugging resignation. She cannot allow her husband to believe that failure is even possible; she must thunder these words, or at least put them over with the intense force of incredulity...
...need not have worried. Khrushchev had come to praise the faithful Gomulka. Determined to cover the last gullies in the 1956 breach between Warsaw and Moscow, he was even willing to swallow Poland's independent, inch-slow progress along the road to agricultural socialism. "My conscience does not allow me to speak untruths and praise private farms," said Khrushchev. "The cooperative is the best form of organization of peasants' labor, the best form of organization of production. But one must not drive a man to a better life with a whip or, as the saying goes, drive someone...
OYSTER BLIGHT is creating unsavory stew for oystermen in Delaware Bay and along East Coast. Bills pending in Congress would allow Government loans to oystermen at 3% interest until Interior Department can stem disease that will further shorten supply and increase prices...
...guess I'll just have to omit the whole taunting of Malvolio in prison, though I realize it's the climax of the entire anti-Malvolio plotting. This does mean I'm upsetting Shakespeare's delicately balanced construction; but that will have to yield just this once to allow for my additions, because, after all, I've got to have a really festive show...