Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew that Bevin was right. But U.S. Senators roared: if anyone had played politics with Palestine, it was the British Government. At week's end a chastened Bevin hoped wistfully that the whole affair was just "a matter which stands by itself. . . . We for our part shall not allow any wedge to be driven between the two countries...
...vote among several politically feeble candidates. They pointed to the dirty and rutted streets, the antiquated purchasing methods, the confusing street signs, the inadequate health and police and fire services as examples of Stapleton's do-nothing policy. And they wondered why a city of 380,000 should allow its mayor to appoint, and thereby to control, all municipal employees except the auditor...
...punch on the nose. When she spotted a photographer trying to take her picture, she yelled, "I'm not so bad that you have to have your thumb over the lens, am I?" At Orlando, she quipped to her male partner: "Come on, pardner, let out. Why allow poor little me to pass you up all the time...
...would have to see it elsewhere-maybe in suburban Quincy, where they saw his banned Strange Interlude in 1929. Boston's censor, who had demanded that some blunt words be dropped from the play, got a blunt reply from O'Neill: "Idiotic. ... I will not change, nor allow to be changed, one word. . . . Boston audiences, I am sure ... do not want plays . . . made silly by ... stupid censorship...
...concession to the upheaval caused by the war years, there will be a relaxation of the usual competition rules for the two upperclass jobs--Varsity and 150-pound managers--to allow any Sophomores who wish to enter the competition to do so. Freshmen candidates will compete for Freshman heavy and 150-pound managerial slots...