Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least four strategic divisions and all their fighting tools from U.S. staging areas to any part of the globe. To achieve maximum effectiveness and security once in the arena of war, Army planners have evolved a "cellular" -as opposed to the traditional linear-system of offense. It will permit only 2,000 men in an area occupied by 8,000 to 10,000 in World War II. Such dispersion will impose heavy demands on communications, so the Army is developing what it calls "battlefield surveillance." This consists of sonic and electronic detection gear that will instantly track and report coordinates...
...situation: "Even as recently as 1949, Tito would have had to order me jailed or executed. But in 1954, with it publicly known that I stand in opposition to Tito, the worst that can happen is that I will be banished from Belgrade. Yugoslav public opinion would not permit anything more stringent today...
...problem was legalized prostitution. One newspaper also blamed the country's 1936 ban on licensed bordellos for "the recrudescence of shameful attacks on women." A few days later, Strongman Juan Perón cracked open the 1936 law with a decree authorizing provincial and local authorities to permit brothels "in suitable places."* Whether or not Perón was sincere in billing the decree as a remedy for Argentina's worsening sex-offense problem, most Argentines looked upon the measure as a new attack in his running feud with the Roman Catholic Church (TIME, Jan. 3 et ante...
...President continued: "America joins with all believers of every faith in a prayer of thanks and a plea that, whatever lies ahead, we may be strong and courageous and wise in the doing of our own tasks in accord with the Divine Will." "And now," he said, "please permit me a personal note. Mrs. Eisenhower and I wish all of you . . . everywhere a very merry Christmas . . . God rest you; let nothing you dismay." The President flipped a switch, 2,100 lights winked on the nation's Christmas tree and a bell choir rang out O Come, All Ye Faithful...
Actor or Artist? When he was 16 the U.S. entered World War I, and he decided to go to France as an ambulance driver. He managed to get his mother to sign his father's name on a parental permit, then he forged the date of his birth, and was off. Home again, he was no longer interested in the ninth grade. "I tried to decide," he says, "was I going to be an actor or an artist...