Word: assents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death. Among them: felling a tree, picking a pocket, associating with gypsies for a month. In 1810, to a proposal to abolish 'the death penalty for shoplifting of articles worth five shillings or more, Lord Ellenborough had solemnly objected: "I trust your lordships will pause before you assent to an experiment pregnant with danger to the security of property . . . Repeal this law and see the contrast-no man can trust himself for an hour out of doors without the most alarming apprehensions that on his return every vestige of his property will be swept off by the hardened robber...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan, had been dealing with the various aspects of the Marshall Plan that it felt ought to be "saved." The vote was in favor of accepting a broadly outlined four-point program, and its unanimity was significant in that it included the assent of leaders from such widely divergent groups as the Students for Democratic Action, the Harvard Young Republican Club, the Catholic Club, the United Nations Council, and the Radcliffe League for Democracy. The vote indicates a solidly realistic attitude toward the Marshall Plan among the persons at the meeting. It indicates...
Both, with the silent assent of Rumania's hard-driving Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker, had been talking up a federation composed of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland (TIME, Jan. 26). Quilted into a single state, it would comprise 447,000 square miles with 81 million people. It had growing armies, resources of coal, oil, and some highly developed industry. In the absence of a strong Germany, it would be Europe's most formidable power outside Russia. And it was perched on Russia's doorstep...
Beck interposed: "Make no mistake about it-Dan is good for general president for at least ten years." Tobin jiggled his ruddy jowls and growled his assent...
...Taylor Spink's mind, but it was never out of Jackie's. He, his teammates and the National League had broken baseball's 60-year color line. Only two years had passed since Rogers Hornsby declared, and baseball know-it-alls everywhere had nodded in assent: "Ballplayers on the road live close together ... it won't work...