Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informality gives priests plenty of leeway in where they go and what they do, though they are not often seen in nightclubs. But in modern Italy a priest watching a soccer match-much less a floor show or a movie-is out of bounds. Priests must always wear their cassocks in public, are not supposed to smoke on the street or push baby carriages or carry large parcels, ride horseback except in rural areas, or eat alone at first-class restaurants. A priest should not be seen walking often with the same female-even his aged aunt-and a priest...
...offered to submit company demands for more leeway in making local plant manpower changes in the interests of efficiency to a three-man arbitration board for a binding decision in 60 days...
...dining hall, a new drama workshop, or a bottle of sherry at a concentration dinner, the Ford grants to the Houses touch the undergraduate in many ways. From a Ford Foundation award, the Corporation annually gives $25000 to each Master, allowing him, as Master Fair puts it, "leeway to apply his imagination...
...year-old Don Juan de Bourbon), though only after "the Caudillo is no longer with us because God wills it so." Result is that Franco's leniency toward Satrústegui was interpreted by many Spaniards not as a sign of weakness, but as the kind of leeway Franco allows, so long as no one goes too far, e.g., publicly tries to hold meetings as a declared political party...
Nationally, for the time being, the cloud ceilings for such flights were raised 600 feet and visibility requirements doubled. This was intended to give pilots more leeway in landings when they come off instruments and into open weather...