Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Permit direct but nonvoting Government investment in private enterprises abroad...
Rather, it was necessary not to remain trapped in the banal concepts of space and time, nor yield to the morbidity of the objective position, nor yet to permit one's courage to be seduced by authoritarian devices for social control. It was imperative to transcend the seductions and qualities of materiel and its concomitant ethic. As for myself, I considered it necessary to evolve an instrument to aid in cutting through all such opiates, past and present, so that a direct, immediate, and truly free and human commitment could be achieved, and a responsible statement be made visible...
Often invited to visit the U.S. earlier, Lott replied that "conditions did not permit." He referred to a group of troublesome Brazilian militarists who have obeyed him only grudgingly ever since 1955, when he called out troops loyal to him in a "preventive coup," forestalling a plot by some other officers and ensuring the inauguration of President Juscelino Kubitschek. For the past four years Lott has disciplined the hotheads gently (usually with house arrest), built a fiercely loyal cadre of junior officers by promoting them up from the ranks...
...When word reached the ship that the wife of one of the seamen had been killed in an auto accident and his two children injured, Gralla would not permit the radio operator to break silence to acknowledge the message. Six weeks later the crew pitched in $1,000 to send the seaman home from Rio on a commercial plane...
...share. Yet this is not cash on hand. When General sells an $895 lot for $10 down and $10 a month, it counts the full profit on the sale as current profit, even though it will not receive it all for 8Jr years. To bolster its cash position and permit it to expand, it is closing a deal with the Prudential Insurance Co., which will buy $10 million in General Development bonds...