Word: permit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven weeks after Communist Gerhart Eisler sneaked out of the U.S. as a stowaway, his wife Brunhilde, 37, set off in style last week to join him in the Soviet sector of Berlin. Because she was being deported (for overstaying her visitor's permit), the U.S. Government had to lay out $468.09 for her airline ticket. Even so, she was feeling a little miffed...
...companies would lose their firm hold over the world's biggest source of the metal outside U.S. borders. Chile was reluctant to take the move. But its determination to stand on its own economic feet, whether well-shod by U.S. dollars or not, was too strong to permit an alternative...
...Then you can enter," said the policeman, "but I must search you first." He found a pistol which he promptly took. "I have a pistol permit from your own police chief," Kwon shouted. The policeman laughed. "Nobody except us is going to be armed during this raid," he said. "Enter now if you like...
...Faith. Long before this reform can be completed, South Korea faces immediate dangers. Farm production is not rising rapidly enough to feed 2,000,000 refugees from the north. Korea formerly had a closely knit economy, and both areas now suffer from the fact that the Communists do not permit trade across the border. The $150 million requested by Truman will be used mainly for raw materials and industrial products which formerly came from North Korea...
...greatly regret that my 93 years do not permit me ... to repeat my [1931] visit to Moscow, which remains one of the brightest of all my cherished memories," wrote Bernard Shaw, declining an invitation to the 150th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin's birthday. He sent good wishes anyway: "The Soviet Union still interests me more than any other state in the world, including my own country...