Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order has been more beset with sectarianism. Soon after St. Francis' death, his simplicity and fervor living on in his followers caused a profusion of Franciscan-rule sects and splinter groups-Spirituals, Moderates. Celestines, Observants, Intransigents. In 1517 the Conventuals were constituted a separate order; they permit their monasteries to hold property (most other Franciscan property is held and administered by the Holy See), and they wear black habits, shoes and birettas. The more ascetic Franciscans split from the order in 1525 to become the bearded Capuchins...
...consulate in Hong Kong one day last week came word from Shanghai that the Chinese Communists had released two more of the U.S. citizens arrested and jailed for "espionage" during the Korean war, would soon permit them to cross into the free world. The pair, both Jesuit missionary priests from California: Charles J. McCarthy, 45, of San Francisco, and John Alexander Houle, 42, of Glendale. The freeing of the priests left six Americans still confined in Communist China, two of them condemned to life terms...
...church and state. Pointedly Inonu recalled that during their fight to overthrow the Sultan and forge the Turkish Republic, Ataturk and his followers were formerly proclaimed infidels by the Constantinople Caliphate. "The main point," said Inonu, "is not the pardon of this hodja, but whether we are going to permit the return of this kind of thing...
...eyed onetime boy commando for the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, spouted obscenities at the cops, cried: "What are you trying to do-get everybody's picture in the papers?" Later, charged with assault and relieved of the automatic and two other pistols, and of his police gun-toting permit, Billingsley bawled: "The whole thing was brought on by a bunch of racketeering Communists...
QANTAS AIRLINE of Australia will get a San Francisco-New York route from U.S. despite opposition of U.S. lines. State Department is backing Australia's plea for route that will permit it to pick up London-bound passengers in either city so that much of its Australia-Europe traffic can be rerouted from explosive Middle East to U.S. Australia in return will grant rights which U.S. lines call almost worthless, e.g., permission to use it as base on flights to and from Southeast Asia, South Africa, South America (via South Pole...