Word: proffered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drug taking is a must. A Modcom producer ought never to forget that it is good box office to proffer simulated wickedness as an act of liberation. That is what is known as a low high. Many a boy's only contact with opium was Dr. Fu Manchu, and the closest that many a playgoer gets to a whiff of pot is Modcom...
...hardly be expected to suggest that the war has, after all, been a mistake, or to conjure up a speedy solution after so many years of searching for one. Hubert Humphrey's adherents, while professing residual loyalty to Johnson's policies, must at the same time proffer some hope for an early and tenable peace. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern, though nominally rivals, will continue to urge approximately similar terms for ending the war posthaste...
...Court Circular, which keeps track of British royalty. Top people can still discover what other top people are up to in columns of high-toned chitchat. Though demoted from the front page to the back, the personal-ad column still evokes an engagingly eccentric England. Butlers and nannies proffer their respectable services, bird lovers and wine connoisseurs seek out rarities...
...newsmen and junketing politicians. There was even some short-lived speculation that Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy, during a briefing in Paris this month, had been given a peace feeler to relay to Johnson. Actually, about all that Bobby got was a muffled replay of Trinh's implied proffer of peace talks after a bombing halt...
When chiming pendulums do chorus four He judged heir to the bay leaf crown Shall proffer his selfsame poeay, Orate in yellow lit Lamontian Forum...