Word: assents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of a more profound understanding, they felt, would be a willingness to let South Americans solve problems in their own way--even though American-owned industries would have to be nationalized. There was general assent to a proposal by Jose Moraes of Brazil to nationalize (with compensation) public utilities and basic extractive industries, establish a free-trade area throughout South America, and institute agrarian reform...
...Good Humor bells before noon and after 7 p.m., and thereby save the country from the worst of it. After two hours and some 23 speeches, the House passed the bill as amended. Grumbled Earl Attlee. author of the welfare state and liberator of India: "Before we assent to these bells, I think we should know a little more...
...tally, looked up and grinned. Rising, he shuffled excitedly down the rows of his group, shouting "Let's go! Let's go!" Though the delegation had decided to split their vote among Kennedy, Johnson and Symington, one after another yelled, "O.K.!" and waved their arms in assent. Moments later the clerk called "WYOMING!" and Delegation Chairman Tracy McCracken, his white hair glistening in the spotlight, cried: "Wyoming's vote will make a majority for Senator Kennedy!" And through the thunderous tumult came Missouri's move to declare the nomination by acclamation (final roll-call tally: Kennedy...
Weaver's King has a sombre majesty of such impressiveness that when Douglas says "I fear thou art another counterfeit;/And yet, in faith, thou bearest thee like a king," we nod in inward and compelled assent. His face bears the signs of his shaken age, "wan with care," and there is a poignancy to his recurring mention of his desire to embark on a Crusade that becomes near unbearable when the dying King asks to be carried to the Jerusalem Chamber: It hath been prophesied to me many years I should not die but in Jerusalem, Which vainly...
...through the hole and told you who was there." Later he called Winchell lecherous and "a silly old man who could not admit under oath that he writes his own columns," added a few more phrases so barbarous that NBC cut them from the tape-with Paar's assent. (Winchell counterattacked toward week's end, wrote: "St. Paarnard is a mean, sick and malicious little...