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Word: permit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Permit Nationalist commando units to train on the tightly sealed-off Pacific islands of Saipan and Tinian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Cops on the Hill | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...White House indicated that Mrs. Luce will take over her new job in late spring-after the Italian elections. This will permit the present U.S. Ambassador, Ellsworth Bunker, to carry through the close watch which he has already begun on the critical Italian election campaign, the date of which has not yet been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Assignment: Rome | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...Notwithstanding Peronismo's proclaimed Truth No. 1 that "true democracy is the one that does what the people want," the leader's real job is to decide what the people should want. "The masses are like the muscles directed by the brain . . . One must permit the people to have the 50% that they want-but be sure that one's own 50% is the half that matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Lecture by the Leader | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...therefore, issuing instructions that the Seventh Fleet no longer be employed to shield Communist China. Permit me to make crystal clear-this order implies no aggressive intent on our part. But we certainly have no obligation to protect a nation fighting us in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The State of the Union | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Could Fort Worth permit such a development without retaliating? It hardly seemed possible: simply by tearing out a few acres of houses too, and spending 15 or 20 million dollars more, Fort Worth could have not one but two big airports. No such proposal had yet been advanced, but it seemed only a question of time before both cities were bowling over houses and converting their sites to runways, The folks could always camp out in tents around the edges or just fly up to New York and settle down with all the other Texans in the Waldorf-Astoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Air War | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

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