Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of all society editors who have ever wearied of the trite flittings of the elite, permit me to thank you for your tremendously well-done account of Martha Rountree's Washington party [TIME, June...
There was a further danger. If the Communists continue to permit non-Communist reporters to take carefully controlled trips behind the Iron Curtain, the Western press may be fooled into believing that they are being allowed to see through the Iron Curtain, while, in fact, the curtain still shuts out almost as much real news as it ever...
...mind that the Communist bloc needs trade worse than the West. Its need for capital goods to industrialize China, even of rice to feed it, is the major reason for the ruble offensive. Hence, the West has a bargaining advantage which it would be foolish to sacrifice merely to permit any individual businessmen to gain a few minor, short-lived advantages. For as long as the cold war lasts, the free world, too, must treat trade as a weapon...
...occupied by cemeteries. The British, said the magazine, often use cremation as an alternative to cemeteries, but the Roman Catholic Church, which has a good bit to say about French burial practices, is steadfastly opposed to it.* Then the weekly asked some distinguished French intellectuals: 1) Should the church permit cremation? 2) Would you rather be cremated or buried...
...rest, a few thought the church should permit cremation, but for himself each preferred an old-fashioned burial. Sample reasons...