Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...onto the American women [Sept. 14]. All year WWD has sung the praises of the Longuette and branded Xs over the knees of women, like Jackie O, who have been "caught short" in minis. Now WWD has the chutzpah to call their midi-clad favorites "fashion victims" because they "allow fashion to wear them rather than wearing the fashion that suits them." Is Women's Wear Daily laughing at its ability to turn women into trend-following sheep? You bet your...
Monitoring the civil war in Jordan last week, Cairo radio was unusually severe: "Egypt will not allow a Palestine maverick group to jeopardize the peace-seeking efforts of the Arabs." Moscow, too, scolded the guerrillas and warned Syria and Iraq, both Peking-leaning regimes, to keep hands off. As far as Jordan is concerned, the Soviets presumably would prefer even a monarchy to guerrillas who might wind up in Peking's corner...
...would like to turn the clock back to the days before the Balfour Declaration pledged the creation of a Jewish homeland. They would reconstitute the old Palestine, which includes the present Israel, the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. They would bar "Zionists" but would allow native-born Jews to live with them in a nonreligious society. By "native-born Jews," however, some Palestinians mean those born in the area before Israel came into being in 1948; that would amount to a small fraction of Israel's 2,800,000 people...
...conceded that "the problem is not just to fight, but also to organize our country socially and politically on a war footing." In the next breath he vowed: "We are not going to allow the Communists to operate freely all over our country. We will kill all of them...
...February the Concert Band decided to allow female membership; eight women participated in that organization last spring. Ten Radcliffe freshman signed up to audition for the marching band Monday and Radcliffe upperclassmen are expected to audition next week. "I hope at least ten or fifteen girls will march this year," Dill said...