Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fund-raising committee that contributions toward Caterpillars for Castro would be tax-exempt-even though the particular sort of bulldozer-equipped tractor that Castro was demanding is well suited for work on jet airstrips and missile-launching sites. The secret out, President Kennedy admitted that he had indeed given sanction to the deal. But, he said, indicating that he himself would contribute to the fund, he had acted more in a private than in an official capacity. He gave an eloquent explanation: "When private citizens seek to help prevent suffering in other lands through voluntary contributions-which is a great...
Smoke & Drink. In passing, Monty has a lot to say about courage ("One of the greatest of human qualities") and justice ("[It] cannot prevail without the sanction of force"). He is perhaps most eloquent about clean living: "Abstemiousness is vital-in food, in drink, in smoking, in social activities. So is need for regular sleep." Monty once reproachfully told Churchill: "I never smoke, never drink, I'm always in bed by 9:30, and I'm 100 percent fit." To which Churchill, who has his own definition of leadership, replied: "I never stop smoking, drink when I like...
This seems to me a deliberate misrepresentation. The sentence is taken out of a paragraph which deals with the sanctions available in case of Communist violations of a test ban. Its point was that in case of Soviet violation we might have nothing to test, and that the sanction of our abrogating the ban would not be effective. The full paragraph, which appears on pages 269 and 270, reads as follows...
...worship him'); to Judas, the original businessman with the contract in the pocket; and to the anonymous vulgar Jewish farceur who, in answer to Christ's 'Eli', eh' forced a reed filled with vinegar between His lips." The twin masks of the Jew-mutilator and usurer thus had Biblical sanction "at a time when literature flourished under clerical auspices and when nine tenths of the corpus poeticum derived from Biblical paraphrases and martyrologies. . ." In ballads and morality plays the two roles were already being joined, and the mere physical presence of the Jews in England between the Norman Conquest...
...Cases." Though Keys's theory gained sanction from the American Heart Association last month (TIME, Dec. 26), it is still questioned by some other researchers with conflicting ideas of what causes coronary disease. The main difference is that they variously blame hypertension, stress, smoking and physical inactivity, while Keys gives these causes only minor roles. But the army of Keys supporters is growing. Some of them are converted skeptics, like Heart Specialist Irvine Page (TIME cover, Oct. 31, 1955), who, with Harvard Nutritionist Frederick Stare and others, drafted the A.H.A.'s position paper. Keys's chief weapon...