Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Floor Leader (TIME, Jan. 19). The resolutions: authorization for Martin (as the only living former Speaker of the House) to keep the chauffeured Cadillac and most of the extra staff of the leadership office he lost to Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck. Mr. Sam grandly ruled unanimous consent on his surprise package, despite a noisy objection from Tennessee's loose-tongued Ross ("Largemouth") Bass,*who said it was "an unusual precedent." ¶ Pennsylvania's six-term Republican Congressman Carroll Kearns, onetime Chicago Symphony soloist (baritone) fights a lonely battle for his muse on lawyer-dominated Capitol...
Women since then have had little chance to appear heroic. For centuries, the women of what is now South Viet Nam could not marry without their parents' consent, no matter what their age, or refuse a husband of their parents' choosing. They had to live with their in-laws, endure without protest their husbands' infidelities, could be turned out on the flimsiest charge of "disobedience" or reduced to the status of a servant to a new mistress in the house. But three years ago, when South Viet Nam became independent, the women found a champion. As sister...
...unprecedented number of parental refusals considerably dimmed original hopes. From the 1600 letters sent out, 150 refusals were received, and more than 300 parents neglected to send any reply. Students between 18 and 21 years old are required to get parental consent...
...Among the sad stories of the deaths of kings," says Author Turner, "the account of Charles II's last days is a horror-comic." When the monarch fell ill of kidney disease on a Sunday evening, Dr. Edmund King braved a death sentence by bleeding Charles without consent of his ministers. Next day they forgivingly voted Dr. King ?1,000, but sent in so many other doctors (18) that he was nearly crowded out of the royal chamber. For five days, writes Turner, the panicky new platoon tried everything on Charles except rest and privacy...
...which also nominated him. But the Communists, who believe they will make an impressive showing in Venezuela's first free election since 1947, wanted their followers to vote on the party's own red-colored ballots so that Communist strength could be plainly exhibited. By granting his consent. Larrazaáal stands to gain an estimated 150,000 Red votes, which could be decisive if the three-way election is a close contest. Others in the race: Rómulo Betancourt. of the leftist Democratic Action Party: Rafael Caldera, of the Catholic COPEI Party...