Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left pulse, tested at three points on each wrist, each point revealing the condition of a particular organ. A freshly killed rooster helped to drive away fever. At time of childbirth, opened doors, cupboards and trunks helped to keep the birth canal open. A respectable lady did not allow a male doctor to examine her person. Hidden behind the bed curtains, she extended first one wrist, then the other, handed out an ivory female figurine marked with the place where the pain was located...
...merely the question of where to put a new library. It is a question of this greater expansion of which Lamont may be only the beginning. The University must not allow the Yard to disintegrate into just another Cambridge block. To do this while disregarding outside and convenient sites is to misuse a treasured locale and insult generations of men who have lived there...
Like pressagents, oil promoters and manufacturers of face mud, witches must never allow a client to feel doubt about the product. This is particularly true in the matter of hexes and evil spells. When scraggly-haired, Mexican-born Mrs. Martina Cordova burned black candles and stirred up foul-smelling liquids in her Denver rooming house, she looked very impressive. But her method of applying and removing hexes was too routine...
...panties and sobbed: "I am a criminal." Later he tried to commit suicide. After the Nurnberg trials opened Frank became a Catholic, prayed daily in his cell. On the witness stand he was fervent: "I have at last gained an insight into the terrible atrocities. ... I can't allow it before my conscience that responsibility . . . should be handed over to ... small people alone.... I have used words which I am sorry now I used." Only once did he show a flicker of his old insolence: "We used the wrong methods in the Government General [of Poland], but then...
Civilian apartment owners have tried unsuccessfully for months to get the OPA to allow them to increase rents. And not only are their rents lower than current University ones, but they must also pay property taxes from which the University is free. And apartment upkeep expenses are higher than dormitory ones as the average apartment house is not large enough to employ its own staff or repair men but must pay more expensive outside help. Furthermore they must repair at no extra charge damages which, if they occurred in a College room, would invariably be passed on to the student...