Word: assent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Comrade Molotov demanded of M. Saracoglu was kept veiled in Oriental secrecy. A good guess was that the Soviet Union wanted Turkey to: 1) close and keep closed the Dardanelles to belligerent warships-an action which would prevent Allied aid to Rumania; 2) give active assent to Russia's snipping Bessarabia and Bulgaria's snipping Dobruja off Rumania...
...building, found crowds singing Rule Britannia outside, it was stamped with the quality of grave decision that has marked the great crises of Parliament. Mr. Churchill did not speak. When the vote came he walked out the door on the Government side of the House, thereby signifying his assent to the granting of war powers to the Government. Implicit in Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech, no less than in the news of war over London, was an acknowledgement that Churchill had been right. For six bitter, hog-ridden years he had pounded on his argument as tenaciously as Cato...
Last year when that peace was broken, Lindbergh again blamed the U. S. press. After the Munich agreement, a radical mimeograph published in London the charge that a semiofficial report made by Lindbergh at a banquet of the Cliveden Set influenced Britain's decision to assent to the CzechoSlovak grab. The story got more attention in the U. S. than in Europe. Liberals denounced...
According to President Conant's statement to me, it is his policy, in offering certain appointments without limit of time under which the appointee would contract to give a particular specified course, to stipulate that the appointee assent to a qualifying clause of the following nature: "If at any time you should decide that you are no longer willing to give such course, or if in the opinion of a competent group of men you are giving such course unsatisfactorily, you would then agree to resign your position and would terminate your connection with the University." President Conant made...
...made garden throughout the morning, busy with tulip and dahlia tubers, hollybook plants to draw the bees, and the bitter tansy. The grocery boy came by with news of a herring run down at the Gut. He sniffed. "Seems like it's spring, I guess." "Ayea," game her noncommittal assent from, the kitchen door...