Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Permit us at the same time to raise a meteorological eyebrow at your phrase "the Weather Bureau's . . dry warning...
...Beloved Moscow!" said an officer of a citizens' battalion over the radio. "We think of the Red Square, and Lenin too. Never shall we permit the dirty Fascist hordes to touch the tomb." Spokesman Solomon A. Lozovsky curtly answered a correspondent's query as to the moving...
Fortnight ago Turkey refused to sell Germany any of the Turkish chrome the Nazis want for airplane engines (TIME, Oct. 13). Last week Germany's fat, blasty negotiator, Dr. Karl Clodius, made as threatening faces as his lardy jowls would permit. But Turkey's negotiator, Numan Menemencioglu, constantly in touch with British Ambassador Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen and U.S. Ambassador John van Antwerp MacMurray, quietly repeated that Germany could have no chrome until Turkey's pledge to sell its whole output to Britain expired in January...
...Halas was recognized as the guiding genius of professional football. He persuaded League members to change the rules to permit passes to be thrown from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. "Our offensive system is going to revolutionize football," he predicted. It did. It led to wide-open plays, bigger scores, bigger crowds. Last year the ten teams in the National Football League attracted 1,613,482 spectators at 70 games. In nine games this season, the Bears have drawn 281,631 customers...
...family of wild turkeys, two Canada geese, three mallard ducks, a sparrow hawk, two pigeons and three quail. The turkeys roam all over the yard, crowd around him while he paints, begging for grapes which he throws them between brushstrokes. Armed with a .410 gun and a special hunting permit allowing him one pair of any Georgia species per year, he makes frequent trips to south Georgia to shoot and trap models for his pictures...