Word: assent
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...true that there is really no simple way for a senator to cast a qualified "yes" vote. Yea can mean anything from vehement support to resigned assent, and politicians can be sure that their opponents will do their best ot impute the least popular meaning...
...long ago I stood before a friend's window in Dunster House, gazing at the view of Leverett Towers and said, "God, I hate this place." My friend murmured her assent, but I think it occurred to both of us at that moment that to make such a claim was really beside the point. For whether we like Harvard or not has, on the whole, clearly been a secondary concern to the institution. Unfortunately, it's taken me the better part of three years here to make that realization. Looking back to my first year, I don't think anybody...
...York Times, that racism might be a factor behind a torrent of criticism from the British press. "Maybe," surmised ) Boutros-Ghali, it was "because I'm a wog." Western diplomats were shocked at the insinuation and the epithet; but many Third World envoys quietly nodded their assent, reflecting the deep North-South rift within...
...anthology of essays by women writers called The Writer on Her Work, edited by Janet Sternburg. The references serve as a painful reminder of all this book could have been, if these women had been allowed to speak plainly, without someone grasping at their hands, or nodding in emphatic assent, or smiling encouragingly. The nobility of this project behind A Voice of One's Own only makes its execution sadder...
...intervention. Yet at the same time, the Administration was petitioning the federal courts for permission to forcibly repatriate most of the boat people, who are currently residing in tents, ships and a huge aircraft hangar at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Supreme Court gave its assent Friday night. A State Department spokesman said the government "will begin immediately repatriating Haitians...