Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, before the Watkins report was issued (but when he surely knew its tone), Majority Leader William Knowland announced that the Senate will not be called back to face the censure question until Nov. 8, six days after the elections. Postponing the call until then, said Knowland, will permit the Senate to act "in an atmosphere free from pre-election tensions." Some Democrats immediately attacked this decision as a move to shield Republicans from the necessity of taking a stand on McCarthy until after the elections. But there is no doubt that the Senate will be able to exercise...
...rooms, meals, taxis, etc., that drivers get when they break down on the road or are waiting for a load). Cole estimated this at 20% of his payroll. Shortly after, his drivers changed their minds, refused to give up their nonproductive pay, and struck. Later the union offered to permit its members to lend 20% of their wages for six months, but Cole replied: "We don't need to borrow money; we need to make...
...held off a swarm of righteous Princetons for a full 20 minutes. That same year when the Crimson beat Brown officials had attempted to foil the raiders by covering the posts with a thick coat of lard. But blue blazers were used to wipe the posts clean enough to permit razing...
...imams would all get their sermons-written and ready for delivery-direct from the Religious Affairs Ministry in Cairo. Imams who spoke their own minds would be fired by the ministry (which supports almost all of Egypt's mosques). Said Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser: "The revolution will not permit vindictiveness to triumph under the guise of religion." But not even Hitler or Stalin had ever attempted to dictate every word a preacher said...
Continuous Creation. The Cambridge cosmographers do not favor the theory of the explosive universe. Sciama admitted that the heat of the original explosion might permit a few elements to form, but he said that according to the principles of nuclear physics the building-up process would stop with helium. An even worse flaw, said Sciama, in the explosive universe theory is that it presupposes a complicated set of original conditions (temperature, density, etc.) that its proponents believe would have produced the existing universe. This is as arbitrary, said Sciama, as saying: "Things are as they are because they were...