Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sought some sure method for evening up such legs. The most popular practice has been to arrest growth of the normal leg with staples (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949) until the shortened one has a chance to catch up. This method has been highly successful, but many parents will not permit it ("My child already has one bad leg; for heaven's sake, don't tamper with his good...
Green and Murray also thought that John L. Lewis, bitter foe of the Administration, was getting preferential treatment. Their evidence: last week the Government thawed out its wage freeze to permit Lewis' coal miners to get a $1.60-a-day raise under their new contract signed before the freeze deadline (a coal price boost of 25? to 90? a ton was also permitted). Lewis, said Green and Murray, was now one wage round ahead of the A.F.L. and C.I.O. But the stabilizers had a soothing answer to that. They were hard at work on a general wage thaw...
...train strike ended just in time to permit Coach Jack Barnaby's men to catch a train for the west Thursday afternoon. The squad, including Captain Henry Foster, Hugh Nawn, Charlie Ufford, Jim Bacon, Dave Watts, and substitute Sam Hoar as well as Barnaby and varsity manager Larry Pierce arrived in Chicago yesterday morning and worked out the same afternoon. They will stay at tournament headquarters in the Lake Shore Club...
...completely confident that we now have power in Korea sufficient to hold a position indefinitely. I will not go further than that in predicting the future of the war, for I am no seer, and there are too many imponderables in war to permit conjecture. I do know that the enemy has been hurt badly and that he has had to fight a long war where he expected a quick victory...
...Like Anyone Else." Mrs. Rosenberg replied that physical standards were already down to World War II levels, that mental standards were being lowered "as far as security will permit." The 4-F files were under review, she said, and she estimated that about 150,000 4-Fs could be drafted for limited service (a figure she later revised to 75,000 to 80,000). "Athletes will be regarded like anyone else," she said. "If an athlete has a punctured eardrum, he will be inducted, because men with punctured eardrums are taken...