Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest danger facing Latin America, Adlai Stevenson reminded critics last week, is not the threat of armed conflicts between nations but "camouflaged aggression, subversion so subtle that it can sometimes be exported without a fingerprint." Today's world, Stevenson warned, "is too volatile to permit the spread of militant violence. And until the international community is ready to rescue victims of clandestine aggression, national power will have to fill the vacuum. It is the most costly, the most dangerous and the least desirable kind of peace-keeping-and the sooner it becomes unnecessary, the better it will...
...deserved greater understanding from the U.S. Writes Mecklin: "Just as the U.S. should insist on effective action against a guerrilla enemy, we should rigidly limit our interference to this objective. We should accept almost any extreme of public embarrassment, even at the expense of our 'dignity,' to permit the host government to enjoy the trappings of independence...
...pocket radios connect each policeman with the Harvard police office in Grays Hall and permit speedier reporting of disturbances and dispatching of policemen to The Scene of the Crime...
...perhaps not surprising to hear complaints from those who have done poorly, but even the most successful students have been expressing dissatisfaction. They cannot permit themselves any real pride in their laurels: the grandiloquent words of praise ring false...
Many of those comments-perhaps the majority-have been written by graders who are all too aware that they will never be obliged to meet the gradees. Often, they permit themselves in their comments a sloppiness and rashness that would be unacceptable if it appeared in the thesis itself, or in any undergraduate paper. Often these comments are more insulting than insightful (one student was told that it would be more rewarding to turn on the TV than no read his thesis) and, generally speaking, they are too short and too carelessly worded to be anything but irritating...