Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patient's body responded by rejecting both the kidney and the cancer. Subsequently, after the drugs had been recontinued to allow a new operation, the cancer failed to reappear, indicating a complete cure...
...Mercenier rose to the occasion, displaying creative as well as interpretive powers by giving life and rhythm to metrically unnoticed sections. Miroir offers the musician other problems and pleasures. The pages, unbound so that the music can be shuffled around before performance, contain many "windows"--rectangular holes that allow one to see through to the next one or two pages. The performer cannot be sure what is coming next or what will return in an entirely new context...
...phase-down or even quick withdrawal. As it has been for so long, the President's position seems firm and fixed between the extremes. He is determined to stand fast. He is, moreover, determined to hold Khe Sanh, for he believes that the loss of the outpost would allow the Communists to roll from the mountains of Laos right down to the South China Sea. Addressing American sailors on the deck of the 60,000-ton aircraft carrier Constellation last week during a tour of U.S. military facilities, he put his feelings into forceful words. "Men may debate...
...Club" continued to protect Philby, even when, in 1962, his subversion could no longer be denied. Rather than haul him in to confess, S.I.S. sent a longtime colleague to confront him, informally, with his sins-"a sporting way" to "allow Kim to run for it." Contends le Carré: "The Establishment is shown to have behaved with grotesque ineptitude. It is arguable that Kim Philby, spiteful, vain and murderous as he was, was the spy and catalyst whom the Establishment deserved...
McKinney's panel also called for an elimination of those immigration and customs laws that "bespeak an unfriendly attitude based upon feelings of suspicion." Besides a general easing of visa requirements, it recommended that U.S. customs agents allow foreign visitors to make oral declarations without, in most cases, having their baggage inspected...