Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity did a good deal of passing, and with more frequent success than in other recent games. Princeton's pass defense seemed about as weak as had been advertised, and Crimson receivers were getting free quite often. Unfortunately, though, Ravenel made just enough inaccurate tosses to permit three interceptions; and each one of these ended a hitherto promising first-half drive...
Such was the Democratic Senate victory that it will be virtually impossible for Republicans to recapture control of the Senate in 1960; not enough Democrats will be up for re-election in non-Southern states to permit the G.O.P. to make up its 1958 deficit. When the 86th Congress convenes in January, a Republican President will be confronted by the heaviest opposition-party majority in this century...
...Labor Relations Act, by prohibiting tribesmen from joining labor unions; the 74-man Tribal Council shooed organizers for the United Steel Workers and the Operating Engineers from their land by invoking an 1868 treaty provision that prohibits anyone except federal employees from setting foot on tribal lands without a permit...
...Tokyo laws now permit only twelve-story buildings, which must have special earthquake-proof foundations...
...Childish Task. Whether or not Soviet authorities will permit him to go to Stockholm for the Nobel Prize or let him accept the prize money ($41,420), Pasternak has small fear of official reprisal ("I am an old man; the worst which could happen to me would be death"). Whatever happens, Pasternak's way will be lonely, upright, and full of that fatalistic fortitude of which he once wrote...