Word: consenting
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...church, he writes, "merely tolerates" the method, and then only under three conditions: "a sufficiently serious reason," the consent of both husband & wife, and assurance that the degree of continence required does not lead to sins against chastity...
...years Hollywood stalled off judgment day by consent decrees (which later lapsed) and legal shadow boxing in the lower courts. But last week, when the final decisions in four cases came in the Supreme Court, antitrust won almost all its points. The court...
What did the phrase mean? The U.S. citizen would vociferously deny that he was the subject of any government-even in name. His government belonged to him; what his nation did, it did only with his consent and by his will. He was least of all a spokesman of imperialism. But when thousands of U.S. school children celebrated "I Am an American Day" each spring, they spoke for the greatest power on earth...
...others: Vandenberg (whose name was entered without his consent), 5%; MacArthur, 4%; Warren, 1%; Martin...
...decide whether to turn her beloved over to Scotland Yard, "auntie" and the "vet" (two husky Russians who ran the London branch of the "Apparatus") tried to decide what to do about Harriet. Agent Lightfoot was an invaluable spy, but he had up & married a little moron without party consent, and (they decided) she would have to be "eliminated." Obviously, Agent Lightfoot was the man best qualified to do the eliminating. Lightfoot protested, but he took Harriet duck-hunting and tried to blow her head off. When he failed, the Apparatus decided that bungling Agent Lightfoot must be eliminated himself...