Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, unable to maintain the splendor of the early thirties for very long. Soon letters were being sent to all alumni to aid in paying off a mortgage. This drive did not meet with the best of success, and, as a result, the Advocate was forced to allow the presence of Benny Jacobson below it and The Bat Club above. This situation is not really the Scylla and Charybdis that it would seem: The Gold Coast keeps quite, and the Bats only make curious thumping noises...
...least into international perspective. British Prime Minister Eden indirectly arrayed himself alongside Dulles on the essential point: that deterrence was the policy of Britain, the U.S. and their allies. The London Daily Telegraph sharply attacked Dulles for his wording, his timing, and his manner of self-expression, "but to allow these marginal comments to provoke us into denouncing the central burden of his argument-that peace has depended in the past and still depends on American willingness to fight-is to cut off England's nose to spite Dulles' face...
...there is more than that to be found in Franklin's life and writings. It took more than common sense-namely, guts-to face the wigs of 18th-century Europe in a fur cap. It took more (or perhaps less) than common sense-namely, a theatrical flair-to allow the great ladies of the French court to crown his balding head with a laurel wreath. It took more than common sense-namely, faith and knowledge-to stand before the House of Commons and make a case for the fantastic proposition that 13 small colonies could hold out against...
Ridgway fought hard for his position while he was in the Pentagon, but he seems to have lost. Now he is fighting a different battle, which his loyalty to his commandor-in-chief did not allow him to engage in while he was on active duty. He is attempting to get his views before the country. That he do so is all the more essential because Charles Wilson seems to be chopping up the Army and at the same time assuring everyone that the Army is more powerful than ever. The recent redesignation (but not reorganization) of all training divisions...
Although the N.B.A. executive board unanimously approved his motion to allow a fighter to contract his own matches if his manager has been suspended, New York Commissioner Julius Helfand took violent issue with the measure...