Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foster Dulles confided to his weekly press conference that he too was a diplomat who owned a rod. Dulles was saying that he did not object to fingerprinting-a bureaucratic procedure that strikes Europeans as degrading. Why? Because he himself had submitted to fingerprinting every year to get a permit for his .38-cal. Smith & Wesson, serial number 242332. "What do you use a revolver for?" gasped one of the reporters. "Fortunately, I haven't had to use it at all," replied John Foster Dulles. He explained that Costa Rica's President (1917-19) Federico Tinoco had given...
...handed Matskevich a 4-H Club tie-clip, a photograph of the Benson family and a book entitled Plant Diseases. Benson entertained the Russians with a lunch of new foods developed by U.S. scientists (including powdered orange juice and dehydro-frozen peas) and delivered a warm little speech: "Permit me to commend you for the friendliness and good will you have displayed. I believe you have been good ambassadors...
...well-mannered opulence is more like a diplomatic reception than a trade mart. A greying, well-groomed clerk will compare the merits of two solitaires in a well-modulated murmur, but never, never press a customer to buy. Since cash registers are noisy, Tiffany's does not permit them; when money must be handled, clerks take it to unobtrusively placed cashiers...
Last week in a speech at Karlovac, Tito made his attitude truculently clear. Said he: "They [the Americans] would like to inspect everything . . . We will not permit this by any means, and it is their business whether or not they will give us armaments. They can also stop them if they want to." At the same time a story was noised about Belgrade that six high Yugoslav air force officers, on their way to Moscow to attend a Soviet air force celebration, would negotiate with Russia for the right to manufacture MIG aircraft in Yugoslavia...
Semantic Denials. Unabashed, Pastor Crist tried to justify many of his denials by semantics (on the Ascension: "Ascend means to go up ... Where is up?"), insisted that all his teachings constituted "a permissible point of view within the Lutheran Church." Some Lutheran synods permit liberal interpretations of the Augsburg Confession, the 16th century work embodying basic Lutheran beliefs. But the Northwest Synod, although one of the more liberal U,S: Lutheran groups, clearly faced in Crist's teaching a threat to its basic tenets...