Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party has never tolerated and will not tolerate petty bourgeois licentiousness . . . The party cannot permit the freedom of discussing problems to be interpreted as freedom to propagate views alien to the spirit of Marxism-Leninism...
...find it personally inconceivable that a Republican administration would again permit an economic cataclysm even approaching the intensity...
...more than an hour exam. Hour exams do serve to test one's mental agility. And they make a good game, in which one sees how well he can furnish a blue-book from the warehouse of a vacant mind. Even if one does know the material, hour exams permit little time for serious deliberation of a question. The reward goes to the snap-decision, not the really rational consideration...
...French universities permit summer students to enroll for as little as two weeks of a session. The advantage is that the student does not have to spend the entire summer in one of the most expensive countries on the Continent. Monthly expenses, especially in Paris, may amount to $160 a month...
...intervene through the United Nations. Should the Israelis initiate the attack, the Soviets might possibly agree to let the U.N. intervene, since it would allow the Russians themselves to send troops to the Gaza. Even though to let a Middle Eastern war run on unimpeded would be to permit their semi-allies, the Arabs, gradually to crush Israel, the chances are that the Russians would wish to intervene--without the Arab-Israeli balance of forces Russia would lose one of her strongest selling points in the area, Communist arms...