Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Subversion and economic and political pressures result in frittering away of energies," he said. He added that the United States is buying time in Vietnam to permit second generation leaders in other Southeast Asian countries to put their nations back on a constructive track...
...importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity." (Richard Lawrence, for instance, who tried to kill Andrew Jackson, thought that he was Richard III of England and that the U.S. owed him huge sums of money.) Careful typing might permit psychiatrists to help-or security men to keep checking on-potential assassins. New laws requiring waiting periods before guns could be purchased, the experts said, might make it harder for such men to obtain weapons...
...contact sport, the danger of injury is always present. In football, sooner or later, everyone gets hurt-and more often than not, he gets hurt in the knee. Obviously, the football player's knee is crucial. It must function perfectly to permit all the feinting, cutting, spinning, twisting, blocking, running and tackling that are the basic elements of his increasingly violent trade...
Each time the Interior Ministry refused to permit distinction between Jewish faith and Jewish nationality...
...Miranda-to make certain that the rights of the poor and ignorant are protected-Friendly would give an added safeguard against the third degree. He suggests that all questioning at the police station take place before a magistrate. If the man refuses to answer, Friendly's amendment would permit the prosecution to comment on that fact at the trial...