Word: defer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stoph is admired as an able technocrat who has come closer than anyone else to making East German Communism work. His assistants call him simply "Der Chef" (The Boss) and, according to Werner Barm, a top East German party man who defected to the West last August, they defer to "his skill, his solidly based knowledge, his sense of justice, and not least his secure and reserved appearance." Yet it was Stoph who ran East Germany's brutal secret police after the war and, as Defense Minister later on, set up East Germany's goose-stepping army...
...most legal experts agree that the best idea is to make the present system really work. How? The Supreme Court is, after all, a political as well as judicial body. In some ways, the court's chief problem is knowing when to act and when to defer to the other branches of government - state and federal. A Justice's strictly legal competence may thus be less important than his political wisdom, respect for all groups and capacity to grow under the court's intense moral and intellectual pressures...
Take asparagus. "Subjects who spontaneously attack and eat the tip first are likely to be immature, fearful and dependent, unable to-defer gratification even briefly. Those individuals who proceeded from stem to tip rated high in such personality parameters as frustration-tolerance, self-security and confidence. In the American psychosocial tradition, they showed faith in the future, confidence in the Judeo-Christian ethic, and a conviction that delayed gratification is morally correct." Then there is the matter of eggs: "Several of the students, speaking of their reactions to poached eggs, wondered if they had really been born...
Louise Reid '73 said, "I don't want any guys as officers over here. Radcliffe government is the only place where girls have any chance at all to be officers. When government goes coed the girls will always defer to the guys...
...CRIMSON article of February 18, while mentioning that the faculty has voted to defer decision on the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, in fact gives the impression that the Harvard community has already decided that merger would be unwise. Another negative view of merger has just appeared in the Harvard Bulletin. The effect of these articles is to hamper just that thorough discussion that the new faculty committee was set up to insure...