Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight with his wealthy countrywoman, Lady Docker, and screamed aloud: "I didn't come here to meet vulgar people like the Kellys." A learned representative of the French Academy, Europe's high temple of culture, launched a formal complaint when Monaco's Prince refused to permit the reading of an ode especially written for the occasion by Academician Jean Cocteau, on the grounds that it was too effusive. Highballing away the nights and days in their hotel suites just as though they were in the good old Bellevue-Stratford, Jack Kelly's pals from Philly sent...
...dissatisfaction: "The Soviet leaders lay great significance on their forthcoming talks with leaders of the British Government . . . But at the same time they would greatly like to meet the ordinary people working in factories and other enterprises . . . Apparently there are some forces in Britain who do not wish to permit wider contacts between Soviet leaders and the British population...
...entirely unconscious, most primitive part of the mind, is concerned only with gratification of drives. The ego, almost entirely conscious, develops from experience and reason, deals with perception of the environment, tries to go about governing id. Superego, largely unconscious, sits as judge, decides whether or not ego may permit id the gratification it seeks; it is conscience, made up of attitudes absorbed unwittingly in childhood and (to a much less extent) of attitudes consciously learned or adopted later...
Canada's air authorities believe that the new system will permit the accurate scheduling of jet air traffic. Jetliners use so much fuel while flying slowly that they cannot hang around an airport waiting for a chance to land. The U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administration has not contracted so far for a complete long-ranch system, but the President's budget calls for radar control of air traffic in the congested triangle bounded by Chicago, Boston and Norfolk...
...finance the entire pipeline as a private enterprise. Instead of threatening to compete against gas companies in the U.S. Midwest, McMahon offered to sell them Canadian gas, let them distribute it. Thus he eliminated many of the objections blocking Washington's approval of Murchison's import permit...