Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consensus of everybody that this must not be allowed. Then we discussed how to prevent it. It was agreed that if the Japanese got into the Isthmus of Kra, the British would fight. It was also agreed that if the British fought, we would have to fight. . . . If this expedition was allowed to round the southern point of Indo-China, this whole chain of disastrous events would be set on foot...
...became a consensus of views that rather than strike at the Force as it went by without any warning on the one hand, which we didn't think we could do, or sitting still and allowing it to go on, on the other, which we didn't think we could do-that the only thing for us to do was to address it a warning that if it reached a certain place, or a certain line, or a certain point, we should have to fight...
...consensus of entomologists is that termite queens are egg-laying machines (as many as 4,000 eggs a day). In some species, the queens' abdomens grow gigantic, like fat, helpless grubs nearly four inches long. Around the queen, worker courtiers gather, stroking her tight-stretched body wall, feeding her helpless mouth, carrying off her eggs. The king's only duty is keeping his consort fecundated...
Other newspapers were somewhere in between, but generally viewed with distaste and alarm the kind of military marriage proposed by Churchill. The consensus: such an alliance would only provoke Russian suspicion, already acute, and pull the props of trust and confidence right out from under UNO-or so they feared...
...school corridors have never been zones of quiet. In the past three years, they have been even noisier because of a dowdy little Brooklyn civics teacher named May Quinn. The hot-tempered debate about her simmered up out of the public schools, splashed down over the Manhattan press. The consensus: May Quinn was not fit to teach civics to anybody...