Word: assents
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...long-running political contest--conspicuously including F.D.R., who eventually wore down isolationist sentiment and took the country into World War II. And while there have been only five formally declared wars, the U.S. has deployed its armed forces abroad more than 200 times, usually with some kind of congressional assent or at least acquiescence--from Thomas Jefferson's naval expedition against the Barbary pirates of North Africa to numerous interventions in Central America and the Caribbean, as well as Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq...
...Cleveland’s lake 58 October birthstone 59 “Don’t put the ___ before the horse” 61 “Was that so bad?!” 63 Dir. from Cambridge to Salem 64 Member of a Western tribe 65 Silent assent...
...HoCos themselves. Always wary of being asked to spend their limited budgets on events that are not exclusive to their Houses, some HoCo leaders were ambivalent about chipping in to pay for parties for the whole College, not to mention for a bunch of Yalies. When they gave their assent last week, all was on course for a successful event—until House Masters intervened...
...definitely been gelling together as a team more and more.”It is clear this combination of speed and chemistry has keyed the varsity eight’s success this year. But the main spark that has led to the Radcliffe’s assent to No. 1 can not be so readily seen—it takes place in the boathouse and at practice, not at its races.“The people on the varsity eight haven’t changed this season,” freshman Rebekah Kharrazi said, “but having more...
...done his best (or well-intended worst) to bring the whole world to a standstill in 1951. It saw Elizabeth herself succeed to a throne long since shorn of its last vestige of political power, to reign over a Commonwealth whose only union was in tradition and assent...