Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, as on every morning of the 16-day meet, the race committee mulled over what contests the winds would permit-speed or distance contests, round trips, one-way flights or triangular-course races. The committee decided on a 62-mile triangular route. Into his French-built Air 102 glider stepped a foreign contestant, France's youngish (25) Gerard Pierre. As he checked his instrument panel, ground crewmen raised his single-wheeled craft's grounded wingtip and clamped a tow cable to its fuselage. Nearly a half-mile downwind, a 115 h.p. winch roared up and began...
Coal also faces an ominous new threat in atomic energy, which may some day replace it as a source of electric power. But the U.S. cannot permit the coal industry to die. Next to atomic energy itself, coal is still the greatest reserve source of energy in the U.S. Despite the 32 billion tons that have been mined, only about 2½% of the U.S.'s vast coal resources have been used. Moreover, as the cheaper, more accessible reserves of oil and gas are used up and the best hydroelectric sites are utilized, coal may again be a chief...
...Permit correction of clerical errors in importers' statements without appeals to the customs courts, a process that often takes years...
Never before had prospects of a six-nation European Army (EDC) seemed less hopeful. Convinced that the Soviet menace is waning fast, Europeans no longer felt the need to surrender some of their own sovereignty, or to permit 400,000 Germans to join them in a common uniform. The drive toward European integration was foundering...
...truth once and for all in Jesus Christ; the Roman Catholic Church was established by Christ as the single possessor of that complete truth. It is wrong, then, for the possessor of the truth, whether an individual or a group, to foster the promulgation of error, or to permit it, except for strong reasons, when it has the clear power to prevent it. Any non-Catholic religion, it argues, is error. Therefore a Catholic government of a predominantly Catholic country is morally bound to limit the freedom of such a religion...