Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trujillo has 38 Vampire jet fighters; the Canadian government last week refused to allow a U.S. dealer to ship twelve more to him. But in Cuba, Castro proved that tactical air superiority is pointless over heavy forests in a Caribbean filibuster. Far more valuable to Trujillo are 1) his efficient small-arms plant in his native city of San Cristobal, and 2) the Rio agreement of 1947, which obliges the U.S. and its hemispheric neighbors to halt any invasion fleet bent on disturbing the peace...
...opponent. For an aggressor presumably would initiate a mass attack only if he calculated that he could avoid being devastated in retaliation. To do this he would need to wipe out his opponents' missile arsenals, besides his cities, and this would necessitate expending a large number of rockets to allow for underground installation and inaccurate firings. The United States, it is thus argued, would not need as many missiles as the Soviet Union, for we require only enough to discourage their initial attack...
Dormitory space provided by students who have left the University or who has moved into Houses will allow some commuters to live at the University within the next several weeks, White noted. In past years an average of about 15 such vacancies has been made available...
Forced commuters whose present leases have expired will be given first priority for these rooms, the assistant dean remarked. Geographical distribution may determine further priority to a certain extent and "If we think a commuter will get along well with two roommates who have a vacancy, we will probably allow him to move in," White said...
Legislator Bruffett, who does his school-teaching in Bradleyville (pop. 69), would allow universities -but not high schools -to teach evolution as a theory, if it were "made clear that the only true account of Creation is the Biblical account." Texts used in Missouri high schools and colleges explain that life evolved from one-celled organisms, and they will most likely continue to do so. Missouri's back-country-dominated house of representatives may pass Bruffett's bill, but it stands virtually no chance of survival in the more sophisticated senate. Said a state school official wearily...