Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tone the U.S. Government will maintain was rung in the Fireside Chat: "Our terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan-'unconditional surrender.' We will have no truck with Fascism in any way, in any shape or manner.. We will permit no vestige of Fascism to remain...
...give asylum to or extend protection to any of them. I can only say that the Government of the United States would regard the action.... as inconsistent with the principles for which the United Nations are fighting and that the United States Government hopes that no neutral government will permit its territory to be used as a place of refuge or otherwise assist such persons...
...Workers are entitled to a standard of living of health and decency that will permit maximum war production, but beyond that workers should not expect wage increases in the midst of war. . . . There is something almost sacrilegious about insisting upon improving the economic conditions of our civilians at home . . . while at the same time so many of our young men are suffering and dying...
...coast of France seemed to move toward us. Now it was below, a brown and green patchwork. Our Spitfire escorts had come as far as their gas tanks would permit. A moment after they left, the first attack came. On the intercommunication system a cool voice said into our headphones: "Enemy fighter at eleven o'clock...
Where facilities permit, the book can be studied in conjunction with language records; otherwise the troops must rely for pronunciation on the English phonetics which are given for each Italian word. These phonetics provide a reasonable approximation of Italian pronunciation, but many a U.S. soldier will shy like a startled colt at learning that to ask "When does the movie start?" he must say: "ah KAY Ora ko-MEEN-cha eel FEELM?" Or that the homely, familiar phrase "main street" turns out to be "STRAda preen-chee...