Word: assenting
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Though students had asked the chancellor to agree to all the demands, most were not within his jurisdiction and his assent means little to a state legislature which was already hostile toward radicalism on the Madison campus. By the end of last week, most black leaders had resigned themselves to the fact that their demonstration was only serving to dramatize the power structure of a state school--the preponderant legislative interference in the university...
...equality. You have returned in justice because your aspirations have been met." The Montagnards will be given a voice in the provincial governments and be allowed their own military units. But there was a distinct cloud over the ceremonies: FULRO Leader Y Bham Enuol, who had reportedly given full assent to the agreement, was the prisoner of a splinter group of FULRO dissidents in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. Without Y Bham, who is venerated by Montagnards, the chances of a genuine reconciliation in the highlands remained tenuous at best...
...Clifford? The question inevitably arose in Washington as the Secretary of Defense began taking his own distinctive line on Viet Nam, notably in his public rebukes of the South Vietnamese regime. Even officials high in the Johnson Administration were uncertain whether he was acting with the President's assent-or out of sheer foolhardiness. Some speculated that perhaps the President had grown passive as his term drew to a close and was simply allowing his Defense Secretary to take charge. Others were convinced that the President was in full agreement with what his longtime friend and adviser was trying...
...audience, or the part of it which uses the words scarcely more gracefully than he, that neither are they. The play is brilliant, ceaseless, and for those too shy, too polite or too slow to answer back, intimidating. More dismaying still are his long silences and gestures of overanxious assent. These are the times when he is learning a new part, not conversing but understudying, snatching your soul away before you have time to sell it. The knowledge gained in this way is astonishing. From his father, a railway man, he learned the names and locations of all the American...
...protest the police conduct, Márcio Moreira Alves, one of the few remaining opposition Deputies, proposed a public boycott of the Independence Day military parades. Duly insulted by this, the Ministers of the Army, Air Force and Navy then moved, with President Costa e Silva's assent, to cashier Alves for abusing "his political rights." To some observers, it looked like the first step in a military effort to close down Congress...