Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While each dancing faction is still pushing its own choice, the swarm makes no move. Then one by one the factions dwindle, as scouts become converted to rival points of view. Finally all the scouts are boosting the same site. Only then does the swarm take wing and permit itself to be led to its new home...
...other fighter pilots of World War II-German, British and American. But there are startling differences, as when Sakai carefully explains the Japanese reluctance to wear parachutes: "It was out of the question to bail out over enemy-held territory . . . No fighter pilot of any courage would ever permit himself to be captured by the enemy...
This is the amount required to maintain the level of unrestricted funds which the School had in the years 1946-49 and will permit the School to give permanent appointments to several faculty members which are teaching with temporary status at the present time...
...nation's history. The budget that President Eisenhower had just sent to Congress called for expenditures of $71.8 billion in 1958, nearly $3 billion more than in fiscal 1957 (ending next June 30). It was a balanced budget, but the estimated surplus, $1.8 billion, was too narrow to permit tax cuts. Ike proposed to use it to pare a chip off the $270-odd billion national debt...
...mesons disintegrate in two-millionths of a second, each forming an electron and two neutrinos, and this lifetime is too short to permit thermal motions in the carbon block to disturb them appreciably. When they lodge in the carbon, they are all spinning in the same direction, and under these conditions the parity principle requires that when they disintegrate, they must shoot out the same number of electrons in each direction along their common spin axis...