Word: assents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Jefferson: "This was the object of the Declaration of Independence: Not to find out new principles or new arguments never before thought of ... but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent. ... It was intended to be an expression of the American mind...
R.A.F. commander, Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham, nodded in assent. So did Acting Air Marshal Roy Maxwell Drummond, deputy commander in chief of the R.A.F. in the Middle East...
Managing Editor Ayers wanted proof. With Ayers's assent Bradley then carefully cooked up a fake wire story, in whose every line fantastic misstatements were flatly and plausibly inserted. He had it mimeographed, gave a copy to each of the four girls around the copy desk, told them to edit it and write a head (see below...
...homeland and made hawk-beaked, fabulous General Draja Mihailovich chief of staff. Because some of his most effective support comes from Communist partisans, who were probably better organized among Slavic peoples than any others in Europe, it was a good guess that General Mihailovich's appointment had the assent of the U.S.S.R. Like most other Serbs, Mihailovich had been pro-Russian in the long-standing Balkan struggle between Teuton and Slav...
...force consisting of U.S., Russian and British air forces. The conservative National Union of Manufacturers, roughly corresponding to the N.A.M. in the U.S., presented this memorandum to the Board of Trade: "Any plans for the future of world trade can only be made effective if they have the cordial assent and cooperation of Russia...