Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They tried to convince the Italian people that the Atlantic pact would provoke war. But behold, five years have passed and . . . war is further away than ever. Why, even Russia has formally asked to join the Atlantic pact . . . We have learned a lot about the Communists. We shall not permit Parliament to suffer paralysis. The government will do its duty without boasting, but without weakness." Scelba did not say what he would do to oppose Communist filibustering and roughhousing in the Chamber when EDC comes up for action. One plan under discussion: if the Reds (and the neoFascists, who also...
...that Britain has given such concrete evidence of support, the French National Assembly must ratify the EDC treaty. Not only did the idea of EDC spring up in France, but the French recently stated that they would permit Germany to rearm only if the German forces were part of a European, not a national army. Such a supra-national force will come into existence only if the French will it. Today, no single European state can act as a third force powerful enough to deter Soviet aggression. If a balance of power is possible in the hydrogen...
...Until the clinical relationship between the amount of nicotine and tars and their effect on the individual smoker is conclusively established, no filter can offer a panacea except one that possesses 100% efficiency. The hard facts of the matter are that a completely efficient filter would permit the smoker to inhale nothing...
...Administration's recommendations, however, can fill a conspicuous gap in this country's present security program. This is a bill that would permit the Government to compel testimony of those who invoked the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination by granting them immunity from prosecution. For it is just this silence barrier that has given publicity-hungry investigators so many headlines in the past. Time after time, persons who have not testified for fear of self-incrimination have actually had nothing to hide, yet their actions have blown the subversives issue up to gigantic proportions. An immunity bill would clear...
...president advanced two reasons for the exclusion of freshmen from the Houses. He could see no other arrangement that would permit voluntary choice of a House instead of arbitrary appointment. He could not picture all students of one school living together in the same house but was certain of arousing resentment if all students were arbitrarily assigned. His strongest argument against freshman participation in the House Plan, however, was to permit each class to form new friendships and gain a certain unity before being separated into the Houses. On these grounds the Yard, long the domain of seniors, became freshman...