Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doubtless he would justify his flight to Moscow last week in the same terms. The West has never figured out quite how to deal with him, having tried persuasion, flattery, gifts, threats, boycotts, bombs. Usually the West has asked of him what his ambition cannot allow. He was asked to restrain himself, which was asking him to be against his nature, against his basic elements of strength, against his repeated successes. And for a long time the West made the mistake of trusting his word...
...West was divided and confused in its response to Nasser. It recognized justice in Arab resentment against past foreign domination; it felt sheepish about some of its Arab allies (though few are as feudal as Nasser's partner, the Imam of Yemen, and Nasser himself has yet to allow democracy). The West has incurred Arab hate by its Israeli policy. It also acknowledged Nasser's genuine popularity, and hesitated to risk a showdown. With Iraq's abrupt fall, there was no longer a peaceful balance of tensions in the Middle East: Nasser was moving toward absolute domination...
Though 31 states do allow some degree of privileged communication to a clergyman, the right is still not recognized as a rule of common law. British judicial opinion since the Restoration has been almost unanimous in denying it, mainly out of ancient enmity to the confessional system of the Roman Catholic Church. But many leading British attorneys have differed. "Practically," Lord Chief Justice Sir John Coleridge said in the 1890s, "the question can never arise while barristers and judges are gentlemen." But if it did, according to Sir James Willes, he was satisfied that priests have an actual legal right...
...Cave of London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital told the zoologists that the stooping, bent-kneed, apelike stance of Neanderthal man was a libelous misconstruction. About 1911, said Dr. Cave, French Paleontologist Pierre Marcelin Boule fitted together a Neanderthal skeleton found in France. He did not allow for the fact that the bones belonged to an old Neanderthaler who suffered from arthritis. Recently Dr. Cave himself examined those same bones. With age and arthritis properly allowed for, the Neanderthaler looked better. His face may have been brutish, and his body a trifle too hairy for modern tastes...
...that he had been offered $500 by the chief of police to give him a beating. At the trial of the police chief (on a charge of soliciting a person to commit a felony), Brother Richard Kellam handled the defense. The Kellam-backed commonwealth's attorney did not allow Dunn to take the stand, and Kellam-supported Police Justice Eugene Gresham did not permit Dunn's lawyer to address the court. The chief was acquitted...