Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, while Hutterite sons stayed home as conscientious objectors, an irritated Alberta government forbade the Hutterites to buy any new land.* The law was later relaxed to permit some newland purchases, but none within 40 miles of an old Bruderhof. The Hutterites had to look to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and back to the U.S. for new living room...
...permit maximum improvisation within a prescribed form, Howard wrote four separate "dialogues," in each of which the quartet and orchestra treat a set of melodic and harmonic ideas. In the second dialogue, for instance, the orchestra (conducted by Howard himself) opened with a blueslike theme on the English horn with accompaniment from the cellos. The combo (Brubeck, Desmond, Bassman Norman Bates and Drummer Joe Dodge) then came in with a heavily accented "discussion" of the theme with orchestral string accompaniment, took off on a series of improvisations without the orchestra, then joined the orchestra again in a written variation...
...recommendations of its advisory committee on education. The recommendations, known as the Pearsall Plan, would amend the state constitution to 1) allow the government to pay the private-school tuitions of children whose parents do not want them to go to mixed public schools, and 2) permit local residents to close down their public schools, should the courts try to enforce desegregation...
...Which would 1) establish a six-man bipartisan commission on civil rights to serve for two years, then file recommendations; 2) create a civil-rights division in the Department of Justice, headed by a new Assistant Attorney General; 3) permit civil suits to be filed in federal courts against violators of civil-rights guarantees; 4) authorize the Federal Government to take legal action-even in the absence of a complaint-to guarantee voting privileges...
...Senate chamber last week rang with a familiar Democratic cry: "Giveaway!" Democratic leaders were struggling to override the Federal Power Commission's decision (TIME, Aug. 15, 1955) to permit the Idaho Power Co. to build three small dams in the Hell's Canyon area of the Snake River. Before the Senate was a Democrat-sponsored bill to 1) order the private development halted (Idaho Power has already begun work at Brownlee, plans to spend $175 million), and 2) build a single, multipurpose, $308 million federal dam in Hell's Canyon. Main reason for the all-out Democratic...