Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steering characteristics. In the end, though, G.M. Lawyer John Costanzo won by pinning the fault on Mrs. Collins as an "inexperienced" driver. Though she had driven the Corvair for four months before the accident, under cross-examination she admitted that she had only a learner's driving permit. Her panic at the sight of the truck on a narrow road caused the ac cident, argued Costanzo. "It had nothing to do with oversteer, understeer, neutral steer or whatever.After 43 days in court, the jury wound up more impressed by the circumstances of the accident than by the configuration...
...their merchandise illustrates how the nation's 22,000 retail florists are branching out. Last week the 11,600-member Florist Telegraph Delivery Association (which is changing its name to Florist Transworld Delivery to give itself a more international image) voted at its convention in San Francisco to permit its members to sell by wire just about anything they want...
...elder statesman, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 86, who quit the Congress to found the Swatantra Party, fears that one day the Congress and the government might merge into a one-party state. Local Congress leaders who have held power since 1947 own too much land and urban property to permit the reforms that are needed if India is to reach economic equity. The zamindars of West Bengal, for example, have become (through Congress Party consent) the equivalent of the English gentry...
...mushrooming Lambert operation, which in the past ten years has quintupled deposits to $203 million and added 26 branches. And the fire at last made possible the fulfillment of the baron's dream to build a modern-day palazzo that would not only rehouse the business but permit the family, reverting to custom, once again to live above its bank...
Kazantzakis himself would probably have refused to permit its publication. The manuscript was not ready; it is a first draft, rudely punctuated by death. It is all edges, untidy, angular, raw, the unpolished work of a perfectionist who invested 13 years on his Odyssey and put it through seven metamorphoses. It does not pretend to be an autobiography, mixes fact so thoroughly with myth that the only recognizable landmarks are the mountaintops of his life...