Word: assenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a murmur of assent from my room-mate. We waited. The stranger glanced down at the newspapers littering the floor. "I see, Well, I'm in the room next to yours over there, and my room-mate and I thought it would be a good idea for me to come up, check on a few things--talk it over...
...think the time has come," he said, "to fill the sad vacancies in the Sacred College. Quid vobis videtur [What do you think]?" the cardinals doffed their biret-tas and nodded in assent...
...star's current wife was "so-and-so." At this news, Colorado's Chenoweth again sat up and took notice. "Shows the actual exchange of wives, does it?" he asked intently. "Is that a common type of program?" Pleased by this alertness, Congressman Bryson nodded solemn assent...
...term 'Mr. Big,' as applied to you, to have any connotation of evil or association therewith, or to reflect on your integrity, or to imply that you are allied with racketeers, gangsters and mobsters. We will not republish the articles or advertisements, nor will we give our assent to the republication thereof. We are confident that your and our interest in waterfront problems is mutual...
What She Must Do. Personifying the authority she cannot wield, the Queen has duties that far exceed her powers, and must sign thousands of papers. She enacts laws by and with parliamentary assent, appoints judges and magistrates who act in her name,* confers titles and creates peerages. She is supreme head of the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, which makes her an Anglican south of the Tweed, and a Presbyterian north of it. She is guardian of infants, idiots and lunatics (the Lord Chancellor actually does this job). If a condemned murderer should be pardoned, the Home...