Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regime had allowed many churches to reopen, visitors reported, but the press had launched many attacks on various religions. Last week Party Secretary Khrushchev brought order into this paradox by decreeing that "in the future, party organizations shall in no manner permit any insults to the feelings of believers and clergy or any official interference in the activity of the church." Khrushchev had his own Marxist reason. "Insulting attacks . . . can only lead to strengthening and even intensification of religious prejudices among the people . . . Patient, well-organized, scientific atheistic propaganda among the believers will help them finally free themselves...
Although Yale students normally get their degrees in four years, the School does permit them to take up to six years. Many, when they become interested in a particular research project, take a year or two off to pursue it further. At present, for instance, five men who have completed their first two years of Medical School are spending this year investigating some aspect of medical research...
Police Chief Matthew J. Toohey repeated yesterday that he expected no trouble at tonight's pre-Yale game rally, the first since 1950. Toohey has granted the band a marching permit outside the Yard on the basis of good behavior so far this year. Four Yale games ago the Chief granted a similar permit which led to one of the worst riots in College history...
Cambridge police, who granted the permit allowing the parade outside the Yard, agreed with Toohey, however, in foreseeing no difficulties. Chief Patrick J. Ready praised the behavior of College students after previous games this year, and therefore sanctioned the parade...
...revolutionary new ME 262 jet fighter. He flashed word to Goring that the new plane, with its 500 m.p.h. speed, could end air attacks on the German heartland. Hitler, in what many Western airmen would now call one of the critical decisions of World War II, refused to permit emergency development of the plane because "the Luftwaffe had disappointed him too often in the past with promises" of new developments. Later, piling blunder on blunder, Hitler ordered the new fighter rigged as a "blitz bomber" against the expected Western invasion. Technically incapable of the task, it never dropped a bomb...