Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EURJ In 1949, Havre de Grace, Md. denied the voluble Jehovah's Witnesses a permit to hold meetings in the public park. When they tried to hold meetings anyhow, two of them were arrested, charged with disorderly conduct, and fined. Ruled the Supreme Court (unanimously): conviction reversed.*The right of free speech "has a firmer foundation than the whims or personal opinions of a local governing body." ¶In 1946, New York City revoked Baptist Minister Carl Jacob Kunz's permit to preach at street meetings because of his constant, explosive rantings. (He called the Pope the "anti...
Soldiers' letters to us showed grave concern with "what people back home think." Scrawled in pencil across odd bits of notepaper, these letters bore the urgency of men at war. "The subject," wrote one sergeant, "is too grim to permit delay...
...mason, hurried Carolyn Joan to a doctor. But the mother could not bring herself to believe the dreadful medical alternatives: the child would have to lose both eyes, or die. Mrs. Purcell's first baby had died "sudden like" in 1937, and it seemed impossible that God could permit such cruelty twice. She took her daughter home, put her to bed, and sat up beside her, night after night, waiting for her to get better...
...High King of Glory permit her to get the mange...
...grave error," writes Dr. Bloss, looking back on his own half-century of obstetrical practice, for the doctor "to permit the patient to feel that he is not giving serious and considered thought to her disturbing problems." The scientific approach is all very well, thinks Dr. Bloss but just as important are "a kind heart, an understanding experience, and something approaching at least a speaking acquaintanceship with the Almighty. One of the most important accomplishments of the obstetrician," Bloss concludes, "is his ability to guide the patient so that she shall approach the time of her delivery unafraid...