Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petrograd and started the October Revolution. At first, sailors were the new Soviet government's most trusted fighters, but Lenin managed to alienate them. He put in charge of the navy a commissar who was, of all things, a woman, named Larisa Reisner-Raskol-nikova, and refused to allow the sailors to organize their own self-ruling local governments. As a result, the Baltic Fleet suddenly mutinied in 1921. Lenin crushed the revolt, but he never forgave the navy. He demoted it to the inglorious position of "naval forces of the Red Army" and decreed a new strategy that called...
...trouble, announced from the safety of Damascus that they would continue their raids, but King Hussein got the Israeli message. In a broadcast over Radio Amman, he promised to try to keep the terrorists from using Jordan as a base. "As of today," he said, "I shall not allow anyone to supply the enemy with pretexts and justifications for aggression." Whether he could make his promise stick was another question...
...remarks, however, Pusey asserted a view the CRIMSON has quarreled with twice in the past month. Speaking on whether Harvard should allow unlimited television coverage of events here, he said "to use technology to assert a point of view is contrary to the principles of the University." This disposition to avoid marginally associating the University with a controversial view was what we found objectionable in the decision of Pusey and the Corporation not to let the Harvard University Press publish J. D. Watson's The Double Helix. And we earlier objected to the University's refusal to allow WGBH...
...effort to counter Wallace's appeal, Republican leaders in the South have unleashed a two-sided attack on him. They have tried to show that voting for Wallace will allow Johnson to carry the state, but conservatives concerned about their principles will refuse to back any Republican who seems as liberal as they think Johnson is. Even Richard Nixon, who campaigned extensively in the South in 1960, runs behind the President and Wallace in a three-way poll...
...council has long opposed the rotary, which Rudolph began last summer as a "temporary" measure to aid construction of the Cambridge St. underpass. Construction of the underpass was far enough along several months ago to allow ending the rotary, but it remained, due to a mix-up with the MBTA...