Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cops noticed them. For about 20 minutes the birders showed various identification papers, repeatedly swore that they were only looking for birds, and gave references. But the police were adamant; two homes in the vicinity had been broken into that night. Finally, when Baird produced a Government bird-collecting permit from Daniels' car, the police reluctantly released them...
...Ryumin; as a result, the Minister of State Security had "broken away from the people and the party," and therefore has been fired from his new job. The Soviet government, Pravda added, as if speaking in Beria's name, "punishes without regard for person or rank those who permit arbitrary action...
First, these rules automatically avoid the inquisition methods so prevalent in many investigations. The checks on most committees are loose enough to permit abuse of any witness' individual freedom. Under this system, many committees have become one-sided tribunals, constantly accusing, but giving their victims no chance to defend themselves. If the rules were tightened, much of this sensationalism would give way to honest investigation...
...subjected to community pressure; by Congressman Velde's statement that while the Jenner committee is investigating Communism, his committee's function is to express the individual Communists on the campuses, and by the House Un-American Activities Committee's self-description in its 1948 Interim Report: "It functions to permit the greatest court in the world--the court of American public opinion--to have an undirected, uncensored and unprejudiced opportunity to render a continuing verdict on all of its public officials and to evaluate the merit of many in private life who were openly associating and assisting disloyal groups...
...Housemasters also denied a request to permit women at Sunday morning breakfast...