Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This, Madam," said the imperial ghost, "is no strange place to me. It is our former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many vineyards. The newer palace [you are standing on its roof], built in 1911 by Krasnov in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is of white Inkerman stone, and contains nearly a hundred rooms. It has now been changed into a sanatorium for sick peasants, although certain of the rooms have...
...really talking to himself," she wrote. "It was as though he lived outside of himself and George Marshall was someone he was constantly appraising. ... He would say, 'I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment. ... It is not easy to tell men they have failed. ... I cannot allow myself to get angry. . . .'" But Mrs. Marshall also wrote: " [They] have never seen him when he is aroused. It is like a bolt of lightning out of the blue. His withering vocabulary and the cold steel of his eyes would sear the soul of any man deserving censure...
...successor as head of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,250,000 members), called on British Labor to oust Communists from their high councils*: "The activities of the Communists within the trade unions are mainly directed to propagating their political faith. . . . We cannot afford to allow the Communists' attempted infiltration into and domination of the trade unions to succeed...
...band of silent observers surrounded the quivering machine but restrained their comments until the end of each game. Modern pinster's are greeted with a horde of noisy sideline philosophers drinking frappes, shouting conflicting directions, and inadvertently bumping the machine in their enthusiasm. Pinball purist Harry Saxe doesn't allow "any of that horse play" in his Bow Street parlor...
...Rate. To help ease the U.S. aluminum shortage, the State Department plans to cut the 3? tariff on Canadian aluminum to 2? and allow Aluminium Ltd. of Canada to sell raw aluminum at 14? a pound, the U.S. base price. This was bad news for Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp. and Reynolds Metals Co. Only last June, Reynolds shut down one plant and Kaiser canceled the opening of another to prevent overproduction. Now they were hastily attempting to reopen them...