Word: assenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mumbled their assent. George sighed. "Let me tell you," he said, "this is not a generation." He motioned about the room. "We have nothing in common...
...didn't he go? The question can best be answered by the man himself. At Paris, Stevenson could not have spoken for himself without appearing to stab the American delegation in the back. He could not have kept silent without implying tacit assent and wordless blessing to policies he did not conceive and did not believe in. At the present time, Stevenson is a political dead man. While more ambitious Democrats pursue more prudent courses, he may speak his mind on American foreign policy. To have gone to Europe would have compromised this new role as a responsible critic...
...unjust imprisonment was only beginning to emerge) and that great milestone of liberty, the Petition of Right, which set out at length what Coke put bluntly in brief: "Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." When Charles, cornered by lack of money, gave sour assent to the petition, there "broke out ringing of bells and bonfires" such as London had not seen for years. But the petition was Coke's last great achievement. When Parliament rose, he retired into the country. He could not know that a century and a half later the patriots...
...Registrar, however, were empowered to arrange lecture hours, with the assent of the various departments, there would be fewer mixups of this sort. This system would demand qualitative judgments which would not always be easy; an IBM machine cannot distinguish between Comp Lit 166 and English 10, but a perceptive administrator can. There is no reason why courses cannot be scheduled according to the needs of both instructors and students, instead of the whims of the autonomous departments...
...Israel), he told the court: "I know those cows as I know my children." Could he describe them, asked the court? Yes, said Mustafa, one had a very large udder, the other a twisted horn. The prosecutor and the judge looked at each other with a nod of assent. The truck in which the cows lowed sorrowfully was opened and the beasts clomped out-one with an extra-large udder, the other with a twisted horn...