Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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They marched through the Yard to between Massachusetts and Harvard Halls, where a University police sergeant unchained the gate to allow them to leave...
...completely giving in on the Palestinian issue. But most leaders are willing to consider a compromise, especially as part of a deal that would return the territories captured by the Israelis in the 1967 war. Even Egypt's Nasser has spoken privately of a negotiated plan that would allow "significant numbers" to return to their homeland...
...friends of the Czechs who asked them to give up the Sudetenland in the name of peace. A year later there was war. We think the analogy can be made. We believe that our withdrawal in 1957 was the basis for the 1967 war. A Palestine state? We cannot allow creation of a Palestine state next to us whose aim is, as Yasser Arafat says, the destruction of Israel...
...produced it to help the first Ashanti king unite seven tribal clans. The British tried many times to capture it in battle, but they always failed. During the last Ashanti war, in 1900, the tribe rebelled against the British governor's demand that they surrender the Stool and allow him to sit on it in the name of Queen Victoria. They were also angry with the British for exiling their ruler, Prempeh I to the Seychelles. The British won the war but lost the Stool, which disappeared for a while. The last king, Prempeh II, resisted Kwame Nkrumah...
...inevitable that Lenin would forego this gradualism and do what he wanted with a maximum of dispatch. The harshness and momentary brutality of centralism did prove necessary to defeat the Whites. In a country that had always been far from rich, it seemed fairly impossible to allow local autonomy in the distribution of material resources and still succeed in drawing the whole nation together. By and large, the Soviet citizenry acknowledged the need, if not the desirability, of centralism at the time of the civil...