Word: assenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hidden Asset. In Columbus, Ohio, arrested on a check-forging charge, Chemical Worker John Boston asked the cops, "Is this all you got against me?", grabbed the check when a cop nodded assent, swallowed the evidence...
...Princeton was founded on the postulate that there is a universal spiritual moral foundation on which the university rests. Within that agreement on the fundamental principles it was safe to permit and it was desirable to encourage dissent and dispute. Indeed, dissent is intelligible only when the framework of assent is sound...
Illinois' Governor William Stratton said he would enter Eisenhower's name in his state's April 10 primary. Hagerty reported that "under the Illinois law, there is nothing the President needs to do. Consequently, there will be no official statement from here signifying either assent or dissent. I want to make it clear, however, that lack of any assent or dissent cannot be taken to mean that the President has yet made any ultimate decision...
...same time it would accept U.S. military aid to equip an army of 40,000. If this seemed a little contradictory, Norodom added without batting an eyelid: "With this aid we will maintain a strong army even if America and Russia shake hands tomorrow." His public murmured assent at their Premier's wisdom...
...long ago the New York City regional meeting for the White House Conference on Education recommended that our schools 'help develop the art of dissent.' What is commendable in dissent as such? Gerald K. Smith and William Z. Foster are both dissenters. What we require is neither assent nor dissent but independent judgment. It is just as idiotic to make a fetish of dissent as of assent." Hook's summing-up: "The task of education is not to produce conformists or nonconformists but intelligent men and women who will see through slogans and who will take responsible...