Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black future for Germans in general, for German writers in particular: "To be a German author -what will that be? Back of every sentence ... in our language stands a broken . . . burnt-out people, bewildered about itself and its history . . . the fearful accumulation of hatred round about will not permit it to emerge from its boundaries-a people that can never show its face again...
Senator Taft had called Columnist Lippmann a virtual ignoramus for daring to suggest that the great U.S. Senatorial tradition is to permit a President to select his own Cabinet, and that Cabinet choices which have been turned down were merely the exceptions which proved the rule. Now Columnist Lippmann hit back...
...Tsarevich to her, for he had become restless. "Poor little bleeder," she said, stroking his hair, "different only in the organic nature of your disease from so many others who have bled and died. In answer to your question, Madam," she said, glancing at the Tsarina, "I never permit my foreknowledge to interfere with human folly, if only because I never expect human folly to learn much from history. Besides, I must leave something for my sister, Melpomene, to work...
...past 14 years, learned to know many of the cheerful, grinning Eskimos by name. The Eskimos call McKeand "The Man With the White Hair." Sometimes they call him Umeealik (boss man). Boss McKeand carefully protects his Eskimos against the white man, prohibits whites from entering the territory without a permit. Result: not one case of venereal disease reported. He has no fears about the Eskimo's clinical future...
...test a domestic phone service without cables or wires, a string of radio relay stations between New York City and Boston will be set up as soon as "war conditions" permit. A.T.&T. President Walter S. Gifford thus reported to stockholders last week. The "vehicle" visualized: ultrashort waves, known as microwaves. Probable early use: phone service to isolated communities. Ultimate possibility: no more telephone wires and cables...