Word: professes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pont officials profess to be undisturbed by the success of their castoff, claiming they did well to dump an expensive failure. Of course, they might feel otherwise if the Corfam shoe were still on their foot...
Members of ERG and CUE also profess interest in Harvard's undergraduate education. The Educational Resources Group is an obscure body of students who are elected in each House and in the Yard and who choose the student participants for the Committee on Undergraduate Education...
Portlanders do not profess to know what will happen, but a dominant feeling among them is one of faith in the American governmental system and its ability to withstand any shock...
...standard, the Arabs seem hopelessly divided, ranging from the reactionary monarchy of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal to the quasi-Maoist regime of South Yemen. The extent of their differences can also be measured by their varying attitudes toward Israel. The military dictatorships of Libya and Iraq profess undying enmity for Israel and call for its extinction. The smaller states of Jordan and Lebanon, which border on Israeli power, favor a quick and peaceful resolution of differences. Egypt, under Anwar Sadat, agonizes over its past humiliations but has no wish to resume fighting, and this is largely true...
...social scene, like Mary Sanford, who claims to have been one of the first to make money for charity at parties that everyone was going to anyway. "Women like to put on their ball gowns. They can't wear them to a little private party, can they?" Others profess to avoid it as much as they can. Mrs. Algur Meadows (General American Oil) much prefers to play golf, especially on Ladies' Day at the Everglades Club, but she gets "caught up in" the (strictly ladies) luncheon and (mixed) dinner party circuit. "There are almost too many parties," complains...