Word: demure
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prey. This cultural resistance movement is causing, well, some local unease. "We don't know who is responsible for this," said Olde Towne Tennis Shop Manager Marilyn Anderson. "We like the es. It's part of the town's heritage." The city's official guidebooks demur. Says Alexandria Travel Guide Helen Judy: "The official spelling is Old Town...
...though controlled by fellow Democrats, has shredded some of his major proposals. "His first seven months were a total loss," admits Senate President William Brotherton, a Rockefeller ally. "He's not flamboyant, and that's a drawback. He states the facts like an accountant." Rockefeller does not demur from this judgment, but he likes to remind people, fairly enough, that he still has three years to go in his first term...
Turning to its countrywide list of 200 candidates, the committee diligently narrowed its choices to six by November and then, last week, to one. Offered the job again, John Wilson did not demur. He thus became a striking exception to the recent trend in university presidencies, which have been going to people in their late 30s to early 50s. Nonetheless, his appearance-a thick shock of silvery hair, bushy eyebrows and square-set jaw-belies...
...same way that Mass General instituted guidelines for patients on artificial support. In turn, the standard should be subjected to a legal test so that society will have an explicit voice in matters that have traditionally not been talked about. And, next time, the judge must not demur...
Relaxing aboard the Spirit of 76 one night in November 1970, President Richard Nixon turned to Donald Rumsfeld, a White House counsellor, and said: "Rummy, one day you're going to be making these decisions. " Rumsfeld began to demur. "No," insisted Nixon, "one day you're going to be President...