Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little in Hand. On other issues, Hammarskjold was only slightly more successful. Typically, Hammarskjold tried, in the words of an aide, to convert the disputed passage to the Gulf of Aqaba "from a political to a legal question." He got Nasser's oral agreement to allow the UNEF to remain at Sharm el Sheikh indefinitely while the U.N. seeks an advisory opinion from the World Court as to whether the Gulf of Aqaba is an international waterway, as Israel and the U.S. contend. Nasser reportedly also agreed not to rush Egyptian troops back into Gaza...
...considered works of the Devil, nails are used in construction, and there are no hex signs on the barns. The men may drink a limited amount on Sunday afternoons. But occasional defectors-young men who tire of the life and marry Mexican women, and Mennonite girls who allow themselves to be spirited off by latter-day Villistas-are ruthlessly...
...Relaxed Federal Home Loan Bank Board regulations to permit insured sav-ings-and-loan associations to spread more of their loanable funds over a larger geographical area. Formerly, the associations were limited mostly to mortgages on homes within 50 miles from their main office; new rules will allow them to put 20% of their funds into conventional loans made by other insured associations anywhere in the U.S., provided the original lender keeps half interest...
...watched grim-faced from the gallery a few yards from the equally grim-faced Greek Chargée d'Affaires Demetrios Nickolairezis, Lennox-Boyd made the announcement to an angry House of Commons. "Another opportunity muffed," cried one Laborite. Insisted Lennox-Boyd: "Clearly the government of Cyprus cannot allow-under the cover of an offer of suspension-the chance of regrouping and rearming of the hard-hit terrorist group." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell declared that the EOKA offer created "a new situation" and demanded: "Is it not the case that only the imprisonment of the archbishop stands between...
...History Department yesterday moved to encourage independent study by voting to allow some students to take two full years of History...