Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rotund Laughton studied for the London stage, but his star rose on the screen with one tour de force after another-as a warmhearted gargoyle (Hunchback of Notre Dame), a thundering misanthrope (Mutiny on the Bounty), a ribald monarch (Henry VIII), an oratorical Southern senator (Advise and Consent). He was honored with Oscars, but cared little for the trappings of a star; as he himself said: "The truth is, I'm an incurable...
...seriously out to make a profit. The Justice Department has never been able to make monopoly charges against G.M.A.C. stick. In 1952, after twelve years of futile efforts to persuade the courts to order General Motors to divest itself of G.M.A.C., the trustbusters had to settle for a consent decree under which G.M. promised not to force its dealers to use G.M.A.C. financing...
...their most recent meeting this fall, the Masters' Council ended almost a year of confusion over whether undergraduate political organizations should have the freedom to distribute literature under doors in the Houses. They ruled to permit such distribution, but only with the consent in each case of the Dean of Students and the individual Masters...
...provision was removed near the end of this year's Congressional session, Pusey reopened discussion of the NDEA at meetings of most of the University's major faculties. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved re-entry in early October, and during the past two weeks Pusey has obtained consent for NDEA participation from the Business Faculty and the Faculty at the Medical School...
...courtroom more theatrical than Earl Rogers, a dandyish, hard-drinking, devil-may-care Californian who practiced at the turn of the century. Rogers won acquittals no one thought possible with courtroom antics never seen before-and no longer tolerated in today's courts. And Rogers was, by common consent, the fastest tongue in the West...