Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Badly wounded as he was, he ordered the emplacement of two antitank guns, called his junior officer and gave him cool and careful directions for bringing other guns into position to blast out the enemy. Only after he had everything in order did he allow himself to be carried from the fireswept hilltops. Climbach was taken...
...Selective Service Act ought to allow these citizens to do some work of national importance outside the U.S. . . . The marines would . . . make useful men out of them...
...would also like to get back to the life she left. She remains steadfast to her duty in Washington, but she will get out "just as fast as the law and the Navy will allow." Actually, Miss Mac vows, she may wait only for the law. "I am still sure colleges are my role and nothing has made me more sure of it than life in the Navy." Miss Mac could only guess at the feelings of 82,000 other WAVES...
...British policy in western Europe is a strong France and a strong French Army. It was, however, felt by all three great powers . . . that while they were responsible for bearing to an overwhelming degree the main brunt and burden of the conduct of the war . . . they could not allow any restriction to be placed on their right to meet together.... France may . . . find many reasons for contentment with the Crimea decisions...
...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...