Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part of a long-range program to widen city streets without requiring large-scale land seizures, the plan will permit the city to make the street a uniform 65 feet wide along its entire length...
...average card has a tag match (two-man teams with the members taking turns mauling each other) that eventually degenerates into a crowd-pleasing, pier-six free-for-all. Midgets may be there to jazz up the act. Here and there, where lenient local authorities permit it, women wrestlers appear to slap each other around. Someone is sure to take a mean-looking poke at the referee (an illegal maneuver in Missouri); someone is sure to heave someone else through the ropes (never over; that, too, is frowned upon...
CREDIT CARD BASEBALL will be served by Diners' Club. It signed Chicago White Sox to permit cardholders to charge tickets, is dickering with other major league clubs...
...been watching nearby, stepped over and said, "Officer, you can't arrest that man." The policeman turned without a word and slugged Nathan in the face. Two more patrolmen joined in as he was knocked down, clubbed and kicked. Then police arrested both, charging "drunkenness" and refused to permit a lawyer and a doctor called by Mrs. Nathan to see the prisoners, Coulter stated...
...Rayburn pushed his crew to be ready to complete action on Lyndon Johnson's time schedule. There had been some worry that House Veterans' Committee Chairman Olin E. ("Tiger") Teague would throw a roadblock in the way, as he has in the past, by refusing to permit an increase in the G.I. mortgage rate, from 4¼% to 5¼%, which was incorporated in both Senate and House bills. But Rayburn took Teague aside, and he permitted the higher interest rate to go through...