Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the West exists on the "knife-edge of natural sanction," DeVoto said, "there is no margin of flexibility in violation of conservation laws." The former Pulitzer prize winner in History spoke before over 100 people in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...sooner had a Russian basketball team been scheduled to play Harvard and four other American college teams in this country, than the Amateur Athletic Union abruptly announced it would not sanction the tour. Following this unexpected action, the State Department revealed that it would not issue visas to the Russians unless the A.A.U. first gave its approval to the tour...
...seeing Senators W. Kerr Scott and Sam E. Ervin of North Carolina, Clogston hopes he can persuade them to apply pressure in the State Department, even if the A.A.U. Still refuses to sanction the tour...
Concerning M.R.A.'s play: the use of U.S. Air Force planes to carry the germs of Moral Re-Armament to Asia is a typical example of Mr. Buchman's skulduggery because it implies U.S. Government sanction of the movement...
...high Himalayas, polyandry has the sanction of immemorial legend. According to the Mahabharata, the great epic poem of India, Arjuna the Bowman, third of the five sons of King Pandu, won Draupadi, daughter of the King of Panchala, by shooting five swift arrows through a ring hung in midair. But Arjuna's mother Kunti told him, "All things must be shared." So the five Pandu brothers all wed Draupadi and went to live in a grand palace with crystal floors. Last week in Jaunswar Bawar, a region in the northern tip of India, the legend of Arjuna the Bowman...