Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Johnson, an eminently successful minority leader, may learn that being majority leader is quite another matter. Because he still has to contend with Dwight Eisenhower's great popularity, Johnson cannot permit White House-Senate relationships to become too strained. Yet he cannot be too soft toward the Administration for fear of antagonizing the liberal Northern Democrats. Finally, he must prevent a legislative deadlock, lest the Democrats be accused of conducting a do-nothing Congress...
...comparison," Mitchell stated, "previous policies tended to permit more students to enter graduate school, but fewer to attain their higher degrees...
...poetess seeking a job as a postmistress complained that poetry does not pay in Brazil. "Poetry does not pay in any country," said the President sympathetically. A former Senator asked for a special permit to bring in a U.S. automobile. Said Café Filho: "A man of your political standing is well aware that Brazil is starving for dollars. I know you, and I am sure you'll be happy to give up a pleasure in order to help Brazil." The Senator departed with the virtuous air of a man who had just made a sacrifice for his country...
...Lamont-Hussey Observatory at Bloemfontein was a kind of dress rehearsal for September 1956, when Mars will come closer (only 35 million miles away) than at any time between 1941 and 1971. This year it came fairly close, but it was too low in the southern sky to permit the great telescopes of the Northern Hemisphere to observe it effectively. Since there are few observatories in the Southern Hemisphere, most of the world's Mars-watchers are waiting impatiently...
...most recognize that Princeton is a small community which never has and probably never will permit the social freedom of Cambridge and New Haven. The College wants to adjust its social scale to fit the times and the undergraduates as fairly as possible. It also wants to adhere to traditional Princeton social customs. How successfully it will do this through the Campus Center and the President's committee remains to be seen...