Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When we figured the weight we failed to allow quite enough for the dampness of Hawaii, so it turned out that each copy had absorbed just enough moisture to require 6? postage instead of 3?. There weren't anywhere near enough 6? stamps in the Islands, so most of the copies needed two hand stampings instead of one. And the boys who pasted the labels on the envelopes let the moisture soak through to the flaps, so 20,000 stamped and addressed envelopes stuck tight shut before the copies went...
Mexicans are accustomed to go home for a big lunch, take a nap, return to work. The decree, when it takes effect, will allow them one hour only; most will have to lunch downtown. The siesta is not a proof of laziness; office hours average about as long as in the U.S. But it requires four commuting trips a day instead of the U.S. two. In small cities the custom is efficient, pleasant. In crowded Mexico City, with 1,750,000 people and few downtown restaurants, the siesta puts a tremendous strain on transportation...
Britain seems to feel that there is no way of stopping Russia from taking what she wants in eastern Europe anyway, therefore reasons that "realistic" policy is to allow Russia to have what she would take in any case. Britons in general do not expect Russia to be as greedy or as ruthless as some Americans seem to think. And, within this general policy of negation, Britain still hopes to preserve her interests in key spots - notably Greece...
Trouble simmered all over the South last week. When the Supreme Court decided (8-to-1) that Texas-and, by implication, all Southern states-must allow Negroes to vote in white Democratic primaries, the lid came off the race problem. At the end of a jittery, egg-walking week three facts emerged...
...editorial writers) Southern thought was in favor of keeping the Negro in his traditional place. Florida's New Deal stalwart, Senator Claude Pepper, had been having great difficulty in his primary race for reelection. Now, liberal or no liberal, he hopped nimbly on the bandwagon: "The South will allow nothing to impair white supremacy." Said Louisiana's Senator John H. Overton: "The South, at all costs, will maintain the rule of white supremacy." And a desperate call to arms came from another candidate for reelection: Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. He told his constituents...