Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embarrassed moments in the double bed beside the girl in a nightgown, he reading a newspaper, she munching sweets as they waited for the housemaid to bring breakfast and witness the incriminating scene. At least three breakfasts on three mornings were considered essential. Until 1857, only Parliament could grant a divorce, and did so at about the rate of two a year. In 1937 Humorist-Novelist A. P. Herbert got through a divorce bill which extended the grounds for divorce to include desertion and cruelty. There was a brief, un-English peak after the war when second thoughts on impulsive...
Financed by a $200,000 grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, the project will be headed by Matthew Page Gaffney, Roy Larsen Professor of Education, and Joseph J. Young, executive officer of the School of Education staff...
...President is willing to let the dilatory 85th Congress move on civil rights before he makes an all-out fight for the Hungarians. But he feels that the U.S. has made a high moral commitment. And beyond that, he wonders how, if Congress is not even willing to grant help to the Hungarian refugees, the U.S. could possibly offer any sort of hope to Freedom Fighters if revolt were to break out in another Soviet satellite...
Last week the Italian Communist Party organ Unita printed a dispatch from its Budapest correspondent suggesting that if the U.S. would request it, Hungary's puppet Premier Janos Kadar would be happy to grant Mindszenty a safe-conduct allowing him to leave both the legation and Hungary. To these officially inspired Communist overtures, there was a noticeable absence of response by both the Vatican and his U.S. hosts...
...Citizens Bank of Americus refused to grant Koinonia more loans; the gas supplier for the farm's heating and cooking, the hardware dealer, the tractor dealer, and the mechanic who serviced the farm vehicles refused to do business with Koinonia. The farm's gas tank was shot up, its roadside produce stand (with cold-storage and meat-processing equipment) was dynamited and destroyed. The main building on an adjoining farm owned by the community was burned to the ground, and later twelve shotgun blasts were fired into the farm, showering some of the Koinonia children with pellets...