Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bitter that he had agreed with the President to support Fortas before consulting them. L.B.J., aware that a refusal on Fortas would also block his nomination of Old Friend Homer Thornberry to Fortas' putatively vacant Associate Justice seat, could only whistle down the wind. "We shouldn't allow a little group to prevent the majority from expressing its viewpoint," he said. That, so far, is precisely what has happened...
...ruling (TIME, Feb. 25, 1966). But even an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was turned down. Angry and stymied, Painter wrote a book about his plight (Mark, I Love You). There was little else he could do. Then, two months ago, Mark's grandparents agreed to allow the boy a visit with his father, who is now living near Santa Cruz, Calif. Once Mark arrived, Painter filed suit in California to keep him. Mark had told him, "I've made up my mind, Hal. I want to stay in California. I've always been with...
Although the gloom over the fall term is lifting, graduate deans are fearful of a slippage of students during the year as draft machinery catches up with them. Since boards can allow students to complete any semester they start, the real impact could be felt at first term's end. But unless manpower needs suddenly increase, grad schools may find themselves inconvenienced rather than crippled...
...moral grounds" to be party to the destruction of fruit. Government authorities are now weighing the possibility of distilling the excess fruit into schnapps. Germany's Butterberg problem is even more serious. Nearly 30% of the profits of German farming comes from milk products. Common Market regulations allow the government to support the price of butter at the 75-cents-a-pound level. This means in effect that the dairy must buy all the milk a farmer delivers, then pass on the surplus butter to the government stockpile at the minimum price. Such assurances have made the German farmer...
Armah can barely allow his character the luxury of hope. Out of the once-crushed idealist's instinct for self-protection, he cannot allow himself any hope at all-in the text. But what a tidal wave of yearning surges under that title! For Armah, at heart, is still a dreamer who shakes his defiant fist at the world because he has not yet found it worthy of the dreams he weaves about...