Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary Dulles had no illusions about the Russian answer. The readiness to talk, he said, was "hopeful." But, said Dulles, "the Soviet Union seems not to have caught the spirit of the President's proposal. Its very purpose was to find a new basis which will permit of actually getting started. It has long been evident, and the tone of the Soviet response makes it even clearer, that little can be achieved by the continuance of public debate...
...other 47 states, 34 outlaw wiretapping altogether, two (Louisiana and Massachusetts) permit tapping by law officers, and the rest neither forbid tapping nor permit it. Where state bans exist, they do not prevent police tapping, which occurs in all big cities with large nests of organized crime. Private tapping, too, goes on in every big city. Most of it is done by professional tappers hired by more or less law-abiding citizens. Prices run high. New York City's four or five private tappers charge about $300 a week to put a tape recorder on a line and service...
...Permit specified categories of law-enforcement officers, federal, state and local, to request court orders for wiretapping in cases of specified serious crimes. (State and local officers, of course, would still have to observe restrictions imposed by wiretapping laws in their own states...
...edge of the broken bridge and finally tumbled off. The holiday passengers were plunged into a swirl of water, silt and crazily bounding boulders. One of the carriages went somersaulting for 2½ miles down the swollen river. The dead: 155. Christmas broadcasts throughout New Zealand were canceled to permit reading the lists of those who had been saved...
After six painstaking years, Hobbs and his 1500 engineers had an engine combining a low rate of fuel consumption with a thrust of 10,000 Ibs., powerful enough to permit supersonic speeds in level flight. Last October a YF-100 Super Sabre, powered by a J-57, set an official world's speed record of 754.98 m.p.h...