Word: proffered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department, the Polish attempt-which had been gathering momentum for weeks-seemed to be a vindication of Western policy. Whether the U.S. will now proffer aid to the Poles is still under consideration. As Secretary of State Dulles put it: "Anything which weakens this great structure of Soviet Communist power and leads to its breaking up" is in the interest of the United States...
...Britain seemed to accept the news as the day grew near. What no one said officially, all seemed unofficially agreed upon: barring some unforeseen change, one day this week 80-year-old Sir Winston Churchill will proffer his resignation to his young Queen. Thus, after 52 years in the House of Commons, 28 years a Minister, Sir Winston will take leave of the post to which he has added such luster. In his place his faithful lieutenant, Sir Anthony Eden, will be summoned to kiss the Queen's hands...
Fair Rosamond (Henry's well-known paramour), whose famous hardships in a bower have inspired romantic writers for ages, gets only cold glances from the author. The story of the jealous queen's proffer of the dagger and poison bowl is discarded; for Rosamond, "flower of the world," died young in pious retirement. Still, Miss Kelly captures both the glitter and the solidity of the Middle Ages...