Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only 30,000 strong (among a French Saharan population of 840,000), the Mozabites occupy a crucial area, so rich is it in oil. The descendants of a persecuted splinter group of Moslems that took refuge in their present inaccessible home back in the Middle Ages, they do not allow their wives to unveil even for the dentist. But they have been shrewd in jumping aboard the oil bandwagon, and French officials estimate that there are already at least a score of franc billionaires among the Mozabites. "France never has and never will tamper with your faith and customs," Soustelle...
...next thing you know, State Senator Eddins won't allow both salt and pepper on his table at the same time...
...faces and yelling, "Hold it!" Other teachers were shocked at Bach's brand of pedagogy: he encouraged playing hooky on sunny days-with a camera. "Go get the picture," he would say. Bach badgered officials into buying extra film, gave his budding photographers more than most daily newspapers allow their regulars. He ceaselessly sent his boys to football and basketball games to get realistic pictures (blur was just fine) and warned: "Don't bring back any pictures of the basket...
...campaign which exercised the College throughout their last two yeasr. Polls were taken to whether a glass of 3.2 beer would "put you under the table" at dinner time, and so forth. With the administration prudently handling this potentially explosive situation gingerly, the College voted over-whelmingly to allow "non-intoxicating" alcoholic beverages with meals, and a one hundred year dry spell at Harvard was jubilantly broken...
Countered Prudential President Carrol M. Shanks (TIME, March 18, 1957) last week: "The traditional approach to a retirement program has become inadequate and must be supplemented by some new economic weapon that will allow a retiring citizen to share in the economic growth of the country, and at the same time have some chance of protection against any impact of inflation. The variable annuity is the most promising weapon yet developed...