Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gods who had endowed Wilde so richly with comic gifts refused to allow him the bonus of tragedy. Apart from The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Wilde produced nothing in the three years between his release from prison and his death (in 1900, of cerebral meningitis). Humor was his nature, sorrow only his perversity-as he himself may have realized, for it is said that when confronted with a huge bill for a surgical operation toward the end of his life, he sank back into the arms of the Comic Muse, saying: "Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have...
Meanwhile, the Young Republican Club decided by a vote of 20 to 15 not to take any stand on the issue in order "to preserve unity an allow diversity of opinion" within the organization...
Upon the discovery that my identification did not allow me to be in the Russian zone, my People's Policeman conducted me unceremoniously to the police station. There I was put through a minor third-degree. After about an hour, I was taken to a barracks on the edge of a park. There the questioning began in earnest. How many American soldiers are there in Italy? Did I come from a rich family? Who paid for my studies and travel in Europe? What about the Nazis in South America? What about Guatemala? What do the people in West Berlin...
While other schools in the county have been getting special favors, they claim, the board has been steadily whittling away at Bradfordsville. It has refused to allow such courses as home economics, has been so parsimonious that it would not even give the school a new typewriter. But even more important is the fact that while Bradfordsville is almost entirely Protestant, the rest of Marion County is heavily Roman Catholic. The County school board has a Catholic majority; the superintendent is Catholic; and 43 of the 92 public-school teachers are nuns. Bradfordsville's fear: once its own high...
...lightweights has been to raise the weight limit five pounds, so that now when the little men weigh in an hour before game time, they must tip the scales at 155 pounds. For reasons of convenience and de-emphasis, the league prohibits spring practice and does not allow competition to begin until the second week in October...