Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vital thinking party in this country. . . . Why be on the defensive against a party that is a combination of Northern political machines of the worst type and Southern oligarchies that don't even allow Negroes to vote...
Peril & Prestige. Visitors from India reported British prestige at its lowest point in recent history. The British can scarcely afford to allow Gandhi to die and become a martyr-the consequences would be unpredictable, and they might be fatal to British rule. As for the fasting Mahatma, he was again demonstrating, along with his appeal to millions of Indians, his shrewd sense of politics and his ability to regain prestige on fruit juice, water and an unquenchable spirit...
...Walter Huston go through the same scene 26 times, after which Mitchell took off his hat, jumped on it and stalked away. All told, Hughes shot 450,000 feet of film (the complete picture: 10,200 feet). On the set, where shooting took place mostly at night (to allow Hughes to design planes for Henry J. Kaiser by day), he was usually unshaven, always unpredictable. He would phone his assistants at home at all hours and announce: "This is Mr. Hoyt." Often there would follow a long silence, broken finally when Hughes would bark briskly: "I just thought of something...
...Damn it! Forgot to allow for forward movement," roared bull-voiced Sergeant Diamond...
...Friends Service Committee (Quakers) has consistently pleaded with the Government to send C.O.s overseas in ambulance units, but the Government has so far refused to allow this...