Word: defer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editor Irving Kristol of Encounter: "The Americans don't respect the intellectual the way he is respected in Britain. But then, they don't respect anyone, not even Charlie Wilson. The English, on the other hand, are a deferential society, as Bagehot said. They'll defer to dukes or earls or anyone with the right tie round his neck. So they defer to the intellectual because he has generally got the right tie round his neck...
Politically acute Indians had no difficulty in interpreting Nehru's words. What would happen, they now thought, was that Nehru would announce that the big merger plan was too vast for hasty decision, and under cover of this smoke screen would defer indefinitely all plans for the reorganization of states, including those which had set off the riots...
...that is vibrant and tense. If the play has its shortcomings, the chief reason is the old have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too one. Time Limit! tries to be exciting and significant by turns, rather than the one by means of the other. A serious theme must often defer to a lurid plot: instead of an intensity that makes truth itself thrilling, there is an ingenuity that makes not just thrills but even truths theatrical. But in its alternating-current way, Time Limit! has considerable voltage...
Katherine was determined that her marriage would not be like her parents': full of quarreling, bitterness and hostility. But a shotgun wedding tied her to a man who proved to be a rigid, demanding and critical husband. In order to keep peace, she had to defer to him in everything. While he worked, she sat home nursing the baby and her grievances...
...every year. They hardly know the pronoun "I"; almost always they are "we." Usually, they answer telephone calls together on two extensions, divide profits equally, plot their campaigns together (often in the seclusion of an oceanside resort). Clem has a genius for long-range planning and Leone tends to defer to his political judgment. Leone is a talented writer, a minter of bright ideas, and more the day-to-day executive than Clem...