Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...based on an 18th century classic novel about what might be called advanced sex education. The frank and cynical description of the affairs of two wideranging lovers-aided by a camera so candid that it sometimes even peeped under the bed sheets-was carefully edited before it won a permit "for adults only." For French adults, that is. Vadim was denied an export permit, lest his picture corrupt less civilized foreigners...
...Toward. The Russians called their shot carefully. They did not give its exact moment of launching and delayed first announcement long enough to permit a fairly accurate forecast of the rocket's trajectory. As a hedge they used the Russian preposition k (pronounced "kuh"), which means both to and toward. Thus they might have been shooting either at or toward the moon. The final payload, they said, was a sphere weighing 859.8 lbs. and carefully sterilized to avoid contaminating the moon. It was slightly heavier than the payload of Lunik I that missed the moon...
...help the Government out of its troubles. Congress last week took a tiny step. While it has turned down the President's plea for authority to raise the 4¼% ceiling on long-term bonds, the House approved a bill to permit the President to raise interest rates on E and H savings bonds to 3¼ from the current 3.26%. Cash-ins of E and H bonds during the first eight months exceeded sales by $759 million. The House move, which is expected to win Senate approval, was immediately labeled "inadequate" by Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. He emphasized...
...scrape in front of Manhattan's Birdland jazz spot. According to the cops, Davis and fans were blocking the sidewalk, refused to heed an order to move on; in the scuffle Davis got blackjacked, was charged with assaulting a policeman, and had his performer's permit suspended...
Duvalier had overreached himself; as the Vatican hinted at automatic excommunication and Catholic Haiti throbbed with unrest, the President backed off. At week's end the regime announced "the arrest is halted'' but blustered that "the President will not permit anyone to discredit the government...