Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then things threatened to come unstuck again. Caamaño agreed to permit an OAS tanker to enter the rebel-held harbor one afternoon and supply a city power plant. But behind the tanker came an unexpected junta gunboat, bristling with 3-in. artillery and .50-cal. machine guns. If the junta's intention was to provoke an incident, it failed. Caamaño's troops held their fire, and the gunboat churned out of the harbor 45 minutes later. Next night, however, rebel troops started firing their rifles in the air, drawing fire from the junta side...
Anthropology S-119: This study of "Social Organization in Southeast Asia" will permit you to drop the requisite number of comments on the habits of Vietnamese villagers into your next discussion of The Situation...
...complete development plan will permit the University to construct a pleasantly landscaped pedestrian link between the Yard and the Law School campus and will remove a traffic bottleneck at the intersection of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets...
...solution. At OAS headquarters the talk now was of simply setting up a "neutral, third-force" government composed of uncommitted, nonpolitical business and professional men, who would serve as caretakers for at least six months under the protection of OAS troops. Then, perhaps, tempers will have cooled enough to permit elections. No one-except Imbert-seemed ready or willing to force Caamaño to come to terms in the near future...
...child building sand castles on the beach knows that if the boy next to him cuts away the base of his sand pile, the castle is going to collapse." On the other hand, the contractor's site was checked by geologists before the city issued him a building permit...