Word: assents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them. I would like to be able to report that I said something helpful or constructive to the obviously distraught President. But few advisers possess the fortitude to tell their President that they do not know what he is talking about. I mumbled something noncommittal that Nixon construed as assent. "All right," he said, "we will draw the wagons around the White House." He gave that enigmatic metaphor no further content before hanging up suddenly...
Though Reagan dominated domestic affairs, the same cannot be said of his handling of foreign policy issues. His strident anti-Soviet rhetoric increased cold war jitters. Using all his political wile the clout, the President won grudging Senate assent for the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia. The victory staved off what would have been a humiliating public defeat but did little to advance any coherent U.S. strategy for bringing peace to the Middle East...
...into a gothic trance, took time out to satirize the tricks of the literary trade. His Eureka uses metaphysical doubletalk to "explain" philosophy. The patter creates credibility, leading Poe to conclude elsewhere that "pleased at comprehending, we often are so excited as to take it for granted that we assent." In "Diddling: Considered as One of the Exact Sciences," he offers the ingredients of a good con: "Minuteness, interest, perseverance, ingenuity, audacity, nonchalance, originality, impertinence, and grin...
...Security Council remains stymied, it was intimated that Waldheim would assent to an extension of his term, possibly for a year or two, as a kind of compromise. Technically, there is little time left on the U.N. calendar for that or any other sort of arrangement, since the General Assembly, which must ratify the choice, is scheduled to adjourn on Dec. 15. But delegates can still decide to cut into their Christmas holidays and extend the session. In that event, it appears likely that one of the body's most important decisions in years will be made in typical...
...Reagan nodded assent.) And the latest I've heard is that some of the White House staff was going to go to Cabinet positions. I don't know where that comes from. There just is absolutely no foundation for any of that...