Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats did not even permit the President to deliver 1959's first State of the Union message...
...comprehensive credit card that will permit holders to charge everything from shoes and doctors' bills to liquor and the costs of artificial insemination of cows. "Bankamericard" customers will be billed at the end of each month, charged 1½%-a-month interest if they wish to let the bill go longer than 25 days. The cards are free and available to nondepositors. The bank will collect up to 6% from participating merchants on purchases...
Although a federal judge had demanded he show the records to civil rights agents, Wallace gave the records to grand juries to investigate complaints of irregularities in registering voters. However, the Barbour jurors offered to permit the agents to inspect the records for evidence on alleged denial of Negro voting rights...
...Permit me to contradict the statement that I "flunked" my Cambridge entrance in Latin the first time and "barely squeaked" in on the second [Dec. 22]. The truth is that I managed it the first time, as anyone with the merest suggestion of intelligence could. At the level required, the subject matter is necessarily restricted to archaic absurdities that can no longer inspire the young mind, if they ever could: "The sailors sacrifice the bull on the altar of the immortal gods!" This is the sort of bull we have got to be prepared to sacrifice...
This week bearded Fidel Castro was moving at the head of his irregulars toward Havana, getting tumultuous welcomes from every town. His movement would have to reorganize Cuba and try to run its government; he promised that the rebels would permit the harvesting of the vital sugar crop and restore constitutional rights. But he would not personally run the show, he said. "Power does not interest me, and I will not take it," he vowed. "From now on, the people are entirely free, and our people know how to comport themselves properly...