Word: assenting
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Lesley girls have their own false stereotype about Harvard men as the remark about "sophisticated" Harvard Yard indicates. There are two types of Harvard men, Jo Anne said with the smiling assent of the others. Either he's a clean-cut, with a black umbrella and a scarf (in a word, "preppie"), or he hasn't had a bath since September and he smells like...
...climbed by 52,558, to 316,714, in the last four-week period), and a groan rumbled through the old Blackpool opera house. Wilson insisted on compliance with the wage standstill. "We have taken action," he said. "Now we have the right to ask for your free and willing assent to what the national interest requires...
...French mesprendre, to mistake). Misprision is a crime of omission-a failure to act. In 1907, the Vermont Supreme Court defined it as "a criminal neglect either to prevent a felony or to bring the offender to justice after its commission." Misprision thus differs from "accessory" offenses, such as assent or assistance in a felony. Because the two are easily confused, however, misprision is almost never prosecuted, and to the few U.S. lawyers who even know the term, misprision is virtually a dead crime...
Only 13 Freshmen out of 217 polled -- a gastronomically low figure of 6 per cent -- are pleased enough by Harvard cooking to give unqualified assent to the question, "Are you satisfied with the Harvard Union...
Growth v. Pilgrimage. Karl Barth has pointed out, said Presbyterian John Oliver Nelson, that the difference between Catholics and Protestants begins with the first word of the Creed. For the Protestant, credo is a creative assertion and a declaration; for the Catholic, a statement of acceptance and assent. It is no wonder, then, added Dean John Coburn of Massachusetts' Episcopal Theological Seminary, that even the language of spirituality in the two traditions differs. "In the Catholic world," he said, "spirituality is interpreted to be the growth in grace that comes in the life of an individual member...