Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...change the attitudes of this country unless you change its economic incentives," Rochow declared. Because of its costliness, space travel would allow our "war economy" to remain prosperous without manufacturing armaments, he contended...
...House of Lords, Tony first asked for permission to renounce his peerage. The lords refused. Next his father offered the Wedgwood Benn (Renunciation) bill, which would allow the title to remain in abeyance at least in his lifetime. "My son is not of noble blood," Lord Stansgate pleaded. "He is a commoner and wants to remain a commoner...
...Missouri. Fast and furious, touch football relies on the forward pass, the timely lateral, and the guileful maneuver To protect glue-footed passers, some teams allow only one defensive player to cross the line of scrimmage, or else require the entire defense to count for five seconds ("one Missouri, two Missouri . . .") before charging. Because even fumble-fingered players can click off big gains under these rules, many teams require the attackers to surrender the ball unless they make a touchdown in four or five downs...
...superb production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle demonstrated, Brecht was too much an artist to be seduced by his own theories. The stage of the Loeb Drama Center was from more than an animated lecture platform. (The program calls it the Loeb Dramatic Drama Center, and I will allow that this production may be permitted that boast.) The theories provide the shape of the play and the style of the production, but what moved the audience to laughter, tears, and a tumultuous ovation is something far less easy to talk about than theories, something human...
...kind: "we would not have another nation capable of carrying out policy 'X' willy-nilly without regard for us." (Russia does not want a reunited, re-armed Germany that might again, roll east: the US does not wish a Cuban government so allied to the USSR that it might allow Soviet missiles on its territory.) One solution is to deny the objection to policy 'X,' For example, professor Hughes argued that "we must realize that the balance between communism and quasi-capitalism will not come into any sort of permanent equilibrium until communism has advanced vastly further...