Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies." After the battles in Italy are won, the Italians will choose "whatever form of democratic government, whether monarchial or republican, they desire." Added the Prime Minister of a democratic monarchy: "I emphasize the word 'democratic' because it is quite clear that we shall not allow any form of Fascism to be restored or set up in any country with which we have been...
Recent dissensions further weakened his Cabinet. Now, on opening a new session of Congress, President Rios was trying to form some combination to give him firm support, allow him to govern effectively. The job did not look easy...
Things are pretty quiet around the White House until Johnny comes march ing home. He quickly changes into his khaki uniform, Sam Browne belt and over seas cap, which are as near to G.I. as regulations allow. (He broods over the fact that he cannot wear regulation buttons, insignia and decorations.) Sometimes he gets in an awkwardly uneven game of ping-pong with his mother, or a swim, but usually he breaks out of doors to climb trees and get all dirty. When this palls he remembers his ambition, and strides down to the guard house to help the soldiers...
...with such teetotal prohibition, in force in the Navy since 1914, Vice Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, U.S. naval commander in the Mediterranean, this week told newsmen that the rule should be lifted to allow beer on U.S. ships...
Soon Alberoni was thick as thieves with Spain's uxorious Bourbon King Philip V, "who could not do without a woman in his bed, but who would allow into it no woman that was not his wife." This royal singularity Alberoni met with prelatical resourcefulness by promoting the charms of Princess Elisabeth Farnese of Parma as "a good Lombard girl . . . stuffed with butter and Parmesan cheese." Philip mar ried...