Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please permit this particular naked ape to observe that 80% of women hold an infant in their left arm to leave the right hand free to minister to him. The 20% who hold the baby the other way around are lefthanded...
...talk is expected to drone on until midweek, when the Senate begins a seven-day recess to permit Republican orators to scatter for Lincoln's Birthday addresses. Soon thereafter, the Democrats take their turn with a Jefferson-Jackson Day recess. Thus far, the Senate's torpor has mattered little, since its calendar is empty of business. Incredibly, with crises pressing in from all sides, the world's greatest deliberative body simply has nothing else to deliberate about...
...constitution will permit more efficient planning and less stagnation. Under the old timetable, an outgoing Cabinet elected PBHA's new president so late in the year that he had little time and less perspective to choose officers and evaluate committees. Moreover, the officers did not choose committee chairmen until even later, with only reading period remaining for the chairmen to plan, staff, and fund their committees for the coming year...
Criticism of the Peace Corps by Paul Cowan, based on one experience in Ecuador reflects a sense of responsibilities and some effort to meet them. Those who have served long enough to make some useful progress permit themselves a larger scope: 397 programs in 57 nations. That scope provides more evidence to weigh and an opportunity to repeat success and to learn from error...
Some of the apologists carried their rationalization to astonishing lengths. Slavery might be intolerable for a white man, they admitted, but the black was different: his mental and neurological inferiority did not permit him to "suffer as a white man would have." Slavery, in the words of Boswell, was a "happier state of life" for "African Savages." To abolish it, he protested, would be the real crime-"robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects," meaning the slaveowners...