Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least $300 from the club; another, All-American Eugene Melchiorre, told how club representatives would pass out $10 to $15 to players whenever the team went on a trip. The club recruited players, paid their tuitions, and lent them money. To all this Owen acquiesced, thus giving "official university sanction to [the players'] moral debasement...
...York court of appeals. The agency's contention: the decision violates the principle of church-state separation by determining custody of a child "not with reference to its welfare but solely on the basis of the religion into which it was baptized," thereby "giving legal sanction to the baptism...
Three investigators from the Alcoholic Tax office, Bureau of Internal Revenue, yesterday uncovered evidence of illegal stills in several rooms during a search through the Houses. Although the men could not enter student rooms alone without warrant, they gained the sanction from the University police...
...Three out of every ten marriages performed by the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. today are "mixed," and there is no way of computing the number of mixed marriages made without Catholic sanction. ¶ Catholic girls are more likely to accept mixed marriage than Catholic men; the proportion is about 3 to 2. From the church's point of view, this is more reassuring than if it were the other way round, says Father Thomas, since all studies show that the mother has greater influence than the father over the children's religion. ¶Mixed marriages occur...
...than in a godless country. To the Communists, there is no God but Stalin. Communists burn the Koran and punish those who are caught reading it. They turn our mosques into theaters. They say that Islam is the product of a madman's raving, used by reactionaries to sanction the exploitation of the poor. They eat pork and drink wine -both forbidden by our religion. But nothing is forbidden to the demented followers of the blasphemous faith of Stalin...