Word: deigns
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...Peachtree Street (where dogwood blooms in the spring, but there are no peach trees). Now most of the rich live in lush Druid Hills or out beyond Peachtree Creek. Peachtree Street, changing with volatile Atlanta, is becoming a street of bright lights and tourist homes, where Melanie would never deign...
...Since Mexicans liked his fluent Spanish and to solid citizens a Kleberg was a Kleberg, he had little trouble. This year he won his fifth nomination with practiced ease over a Townsend Planner and a crusading newspaperman who criticized him as a scion of autocracy. He did not deign to mention either of them...
...permits gambling, indecency, immorality . . . or is unfair to organized labor." Consequently, instead of resisting unionization, carnivaleers were anxious to get the good-conduct badge that A.F.A. membership carried, and the union found itself in the dreamlike position of being able to pick and choose which shows it would deign to organize...
...could not ask for order in the tace of such repartee. I feel highly honored to have such a distinguished journalist deign to notice my feeble remarks. You know, I am the dean emeritus of inconsistency, and I have been conferring degrees for inconsistency, but I will offer you none...
...last week while search was conducted for a new Premier & Cabinet. In Japan this is anything but a straightforward process. A subject is commissioned by the Son of Heaven to form a Cabinet, but he cannot do so and become Premier unless he successfully supplicates an Army officer to deign to act as War Minister and a Navy officer to deign to become Naval Minister in his Cabinet...