Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trustbusting. At the outset of the Eisenhower Administration, Democrats began watching and waiting for a breakdown in antitrust enforcement. They are still watching and waiting. Relying heavily on the consent decree to accomplish the Government's purpose while avoiding long, costly court battles, Brownell's Justice Department has taken on such business giants as General Motors, International Business Machines, Pan American-Grace Airways and the Radio Corp. of America. General Lucius Clay, chairman of the Continental Can Co. and one of President Eisenhower's closest friends and advisers. is indignant at two antitrust suits filed against...
...country was in the King's hands-if only by martial law, the consent of the army, the backing of the Bedouins, and the help of party hacks and old politicians...
...ring, distracted the bull and dragged Velazquez away bleeding. But when doctors tried to patch the wound, Velazquez shook them off and went back into the ring, his ear dangling grotesquely. Not until he made a few more swift passes and dispatched the bull with his sword did he consent to go to the infirmary...
Many teen-age couples, afraid that the government is about to raise the age of consent to the mid-twenties (it is now 20 for men, 18 for women), are rushing into what the Peking People's Daily last week lambasted as "commando marriages." Another factor worrying Peking's Communist moralists is the rising divorce rate. The Workers' Daily recently had sharp words for a man who sought divorce on the ground that his wife was "too revolting to look at." "In fact," said the Workers' Daily, "this man has already been married for 20 years...
...present Quasimodos of Lowell House must go to these learned men for lessons, or one of the brothers must be persuaded to leave his peaceful retreat. If the monks are made to realize that the mission will constitute an errand of mercy to thousands, we know that they will consent. We could not face life if they refused...