Word: assents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Hitler was through, Hermann Göring asked the Reichstag for a rising vote of assent. He did not give dissenters any chance to vote. The endorsement was "unanimous...
...would be rejected by essential elements in the Indian world and which would provoke fierce communal disputes at the moment when the enemy is at the gates of India. . . . [Sir Stafford] carries with him the full confidence of the Government, and he has to procure the necessary measure of assent, not only from the Hindu majority but also from those great minorities amongst which the Moslems are the most numerous and on many grounds pre-eminent...
Japan's plan to establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican drew a second and sharper protest from the U.S. State Department to the Holy See last week. Similar representations have been made independently by Great Britain. Both powers urged that the Vatican's assent to such an Embassy at this time might be construed as an acceptance of Japan's recent actions...
...gone, the Vagabond felt something hard and unyielding below him; looking down, he made out the dim outlines of the chair, its arms surrounding him familiarly. That's where it is, his mind said to itself automatically, and as the walls bowed and nodded and pirrouetted their assent, Vag tried to pull himself together...
...Many people," his rational mind said to his whirling senses, "make the dean's list," and again the walls indicated their agreement, this time audibly, with a long, low grunt of assent. "And therefore," pursued his mind, encouraged by this moral support which encompassed him, "there is no need for this display of emotion, or rather of complete lack of self restraint...