Word: consent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...according to Hayes, the Callahan Plan offers benefits, not dangers to Cambridge. Hayes claims Magazine Beach will be improved if it is changed at all, and that Callahan may consent to build launching ramps for boats, a parking lot, and even a skating rink along the Charles, using Turnpike Authority funds...
...Williston's greatest influence was as a teacher. Before he retired from the Law School in 1938, Williston was by common consent the greatest American teacher of law. He was noted for his scholarly insight and patience, and most of all for his masterly way of handling a class...
...playmaker on any court; Bill Russell seems to own the backboards with nearly 24 rebounds a game; Sam Jones averages 20 points a game; and John Havlicek is the odds-on favorite for Rookie of the Year honors. Yet other teams have their full share of stars. By common consent. Auerbach is the difference in the Celtics, the man who makes them the best team in basketball...
Glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. (1934) It was by acting as the inflexible champion of the nation and the state that it was possible for me to gather the consent, even the enthusiasm, of the French, and to win from foreigners respect and consideration. Those who were offended by this intransigence were unwilling to see that for me the slightest wavering would have brought collapse. Limited and alone though I was, I had to climb to the heights and never then to come down. (1940, describing his wartime leadership) Every man of action...
...failing to make an honorable peace, we acquiesce in the proposition that news is a dispensable commodity like soap, then we shall be treated like soap peddlers and deserve it. Values and duties have become so con fused that even the suggestion of publishing without the consent of the unions is now regarded as a declaration of war. How the old editors who founded our press would have hooted at that...